Evening Standard dated Friday September 12th
1958
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The main story here is whether or not Harold Macmillan’s
Conservative Government was going to commit British troops to augment the US
Navy’s attempts to help the non-Communist Chinese who were defending Quemoy
Island from a sustained artillery bombardment by the Communist Chinese. As it
turned out we didn’t get involved. For once. The shelling of Quemoy lasted from
August 23rd until early October.
Sir Winston Churchill, ex Prime Minister, ex
Home Secretary, ex First Lord of the Admiralty, ex Secretary of State for War,
ex Secretary of State for Air, ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize
winner, author and amateur bricklayer married Clementine Hozier in 1908 and
were still married when he died in 1965.
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President Eisenhower’s address to the nation assuring the
American people that he would not tolerate Communist aggression in the Far East
is strongly reminiscent of Kennedy and the Cuban Crisis 4 years later. Even
more so when you know that it was later revealed that the use of Nuclear
retaliation against China was considered at the highest level.
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The poet Robert Service died at the age of 84. See also the
Random Cutting here.
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Two things to remember – there’s no such thing as a free
lunch and if it looks too good to be true then it ain’t. Oh and don’t buy cheap
orange juice by the barrel off a shyster.
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I don’t know how Sgt Florence Little got on in
the Lorry Driver of the Year. The only information I can find online is that a
‘Sgt F Tucker’ got 89 points out 100 and came 25th. Maybe the
Evening Standard got the name wrong. It wouldn’t be the first time or the last.
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These articles that ‘look to the future’ never
quite get it right. Most of the gadgets featured are spot on but it’s what is
not mentioned that shows the lack of foresight. Where are the ‘ready meals’ and
the microwave cookers?
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This must be one of the worst pictures of Marilyn Monroe I
have seen. It is obviously of such poor quality it has had to be ‘touched in’
by an artist, albeit not very well. Joe E Brown was a circus performer,
professional baseball player, vaudeville comedian, and film and TV actor,
particularly remembered for his role in the Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon
comedy ‘Some Like It Hot’. In fact this photo is one of several that were taken
on the porch of the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego during the making of that
film.
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Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight
Club is: you do not sign a contract for a Prize Fight and then tell everyone,
because it has been illegal since 1882.
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