Evening Standard dated Tuesday September 9th 1958
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A very busy front page. An SOS is sent from the cargo ship
Brockleymoor reporting an attempted murder aboard; film star Mamie Van Doren
sues for divorce; rock’n’roller Terry Dean is done for travelling without a
ticket; Prince Rainier of Monaco refuses Lady Docker a visa; football pools
winners ‘work on’; 2 men saved from a factory fire; and the US pledge support
for Quemoy.
Mamie Van Doren finally divorced her 2nd husband
Ray Anthony in 1961 then went on to have three more.
After early success as a pop singer Terry Dene turned his
back on the scene in 1964 and became a Christian Evangelist preacher.
Lady Docker and her husband Sir Bernard Docker were invited to the christening of Prince
Albert of Monaco in April 1958. After an incident in which she tore up a Monaco
flag Prince Rainier had her expelled. Due to a treaty with France the ban was
enforced throughout the French Riviera.
Before the Lottery the weekly Football Pools was the only
way to an instant fortune for normal law abiding citizens.
After the Communists took control of mainland China in 1949,
the non-communist Nationalist government of General Chiang Kai-shek set up shop
on the island of Taiwan. Quemoy Island, although closer to the mainland than
Taiwan was owned by Taiwan and became the focus of a long running dispute
between the governments.
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Juvenile delinquency was a big issue in the 1950’s and
everyone had cure, from more youth clubs to capital punishment.
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This letter was provoked by 8 days of violence
between black and white youths in the Notting Hill area of North-West London
the previous week. The answer here is a damn good thrashing.
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As a result of the Notting Hill riots the police
arrested over 140 people, 72 were white and 36 were black.
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The BBC monopoly of TV had been broken by the introduction
of the commercial channel in September 1955, but looking at this evening’s
offerings I think I would have been off to the local flea-pit for a good film.
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Then as now, British soldiers patrolling some distant
countryside attacked by terrorists. In 1958 it was Cyprus, a British colony
since 1925 with a divided population of Greek and Turkish Cypriots. It gained
Independence from the UK in 1960.
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Those were the good old days when young
whippersnappers could go out and play all day long with only the risk of being
blown to bits by discarded high explosives to worry about.
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The top 6 best selling books of the week
included Boris Pasternak, Nevile Shute and H E Bates. Either we were better
read in those days or there was very little choice. Certainly no Jamie Oliver
cook-books or ghost written ‘celebrity’ memoirs.
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The driving alcohol limit wasn’t introduced into the UK for
another 9 years, although it had been an offence to be ‘found drunk in charge
of a mechanically propelled vehicle on any highway or other public place’ since
1925.
The Driving Test had been around since 1934.
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