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...Twickenham, England, Poet Walter de la Mare celebrated his 80th birthday with a promise: a new book of verse to be ready soon...
Died. Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, 78, survivor of the White Star liner Titanic, which hit an iceberg in 1912 and sank with 1,500 of the some 2,200 people on board; in Twickenham, England. As the ship's second mate, he told a Senate investigation committee that the luxury liner was making too much speed through a known ice field, but admitted that after the crash he had only half-filled the lifeboats because he didn't believe that the "unsinkable" Titanic was really going under. He stayed on board until the ship reared vertically...
Edward Keeling, Tory member for Twickenham, asked Griffiths: "Can the Minister say if it is true, as was reported in the Daily Telegraph, that the new director of the scheme has stated, 'I hate chickens...
...Haven, Conn., Australia's (and Yale's) Swimmer John Marshall, to set a new U.S. record for the 440-yd. free style. Marshall's time for the 20-yd. course: 4:33.6, breaking Ralph Flanagan's 13-year-old record by 3.4 seconds. ¶In Twickenham, England, a French international rugby team over England's best...
After his speech there were questions from the floor. One little boy from Twickenham confessed that he had come only because he thought that the union was going to give children the right to have drivers' licenses. Then a boy wearing an Eton-type jacket got up and said: "Sir, if your union does away with corporal punishment, but continues to allow 'lines' [e.g., 100 from Virgil, in a fair round hand], all I can say is that I'd rather have the cane." Copping assured the boy that children should be able to abolish anything...