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Both grew up in Nottingham, in England's Midlands, and came from families of modest means. His father was an electrician; her parents ran a candy shop. He became a policeman, she a secretary. But every free hour they were on the ice, practicing...
...story that unfolds, the author looks back nearly ten years to the time (1912) when he met and fell in love with Mrs. Frieda Weekley (nee Von Richthofen), wife of a Nottingham professor and mother of three children. Lawrence's decision to run away with her to the Continent profoundly affected his life and career, making him a renegade from conventional morality in fact as well as temperament. This whole affair has been narrated many times, by the principals and numerous biographers. Mr. Noon reveals one more shape that this experience came to assume in Lawrence's memory...
Should you decide to stay, you'll witness a sport that has probably been seen by more people in Nottingham, England, than on the entire Eastern seaboard of the United States. Players will be "bowling" the ball into batters in an attempt to perform such feats as "bowling a maiden over"--a maneuver that has no real correlation to anything in baseball other than striking a batter out without the batter losing...
...exposes the internal landscape as never before. "Its development," says British Radiologist Brian Worthington of the University of Nottingham, "is as significant as the development of the X-ray machine one hundred years ago." Unlike CAT and other forms of X ray, NMR can "see" with clarity through the thickest of bones. Thus, without painful injections of contrast material, it can reveal damage from a stroke buried deep beneath the skull, find tiny spinal cord injuries, and make it possible to differentiate the gray and white matter of the brain. "For the soft tissue of the body," says Worthington...
...sunny Saturday afternoon in Nottingham, the Americans and Australians played a final that will certainly remain a classic long after the next World Games final, which will be held in 1985 in Philadelphia...