Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down, Boy! In Liverpool, England, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested the sale of a toy rocket ship containing a plastic dog in its nose cone...
Searching for passengers on the June 10 New York-to-Liverpool voyage, the Daily Express placed three transatlantic calls to Mrs. Mona Kucker, a Norwalk, Conn, dog breeder who had sat at the captain's table. Mrs. Kucker gave the first real rundown on the charges. "I have a letter from Captain Armstrong," said she, "saying that he has been accused of chasing young girls around the ship and sitting in the main lounge with Mrs. Silverstone on his knee, zipping and unzipping her dress." Added Mrs. Kucker: "Nothing like that even loosely transpired...
...Named for an earlier Savannah, which was the first steam-powered ship to cross the Atlantic, sailed Savannah, Ga. to Liverpool in 1819 in 29 days...
...little (13,500 tons) single-stacked British liner Athenia was known for comfort and informality-her slow crossings rarely attracted millionaires or celebrities. She sailed from Liverpool with 1,102 passengers (including 311 Americans) the day before Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, and she had hardly pushed into the Atlantic when Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, commanding the Nazi submarine U-30, got orders to open hostilities. It was twilight, and Lemp thought she was an armed merchant cruiser-legitimate prey...
...taxi fare (38?) seemed reasonable enough, but not to the passenger, who was singularly belligerent for 10 a.m. "Go to hell!" she roared. "I have no money." The cabby summoned a bobby, who steered his charge to Liverpool magistrate's court, needed help from three more lawmen to lug the copper-tressed spitfire before the judge. The clerk asked her name. "To your regret and my pride, Sarah Churchill." In the box, Actress Sarah, 44, did nothing to help her cause by snarling ad-lib comments on the testimony, made an unconvincing plea of innocence on the stand...