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Churcher's carefully worded story was scarcely noticed by the public. But a similar report a day later by Britain's Oldharn Evening Chronicle caught the attention of the sensation-seeking National Enquirer. Within 24 hours, half a dozen reporters left the Enquirer's Lantana, Fla., headquarters and arrived on Steptoe's doorstep to buy worldwide rights to the story of the test-tube baby. When Steptoe hesitated, the Floridians looked to other sources. According to London's Sunday Times, the Enquirer team tried to buy details from nurses at Oldham and District General Hospital...
...sympathy. He lay in a room whose windows looked out on a grove of larch trees, with placid fields beyond. His wife stayed with him. Occasionally his thin lips curled back from his long, uneven teeth in a grimace of pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain lay and the man who had said "I think it is peace in our time" shuddered. When the end was near they gave him drugs to dull the pain. Later he sank into a coma. After...