Daily Sketch dated Monday March 7th
1955
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This is very much a personal view by Group Captain Leonard
Cheshire VC and offers no scientific evidence for or against the authenticity
of the Shroud of Turin. In 1954
Cheshire, having been inspired by a photo of the Shroud face while recuperating
from tuberculosis, toured Britain with an exhibition of Shroud photographs.
Extensive scientific tests were carried out on the Shroud in
October 1979 and in 1988 radiocarbon dating was done on some samples of the
cloth, the results of which indicated that the shroud was no older than the 13th
Century. Some authorities claimed that the samples were from a medieval repair
rather than the original Shroud material, so the controversy continues but one
mystery remains, apart from whether it is the image of Jesus or not, how was it
made?
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The shooting of Arthur Leonard by men from the
Ulster Special Constabulary aka B-Specials was widely condemned in Southern
Ireland as murder by trigger happy part-time policemen. The USC had been formed
as a reserve police force to be used only at times of heightened threat against
Northern Ireland. The IRA Cross-Border Campaign of 1955 - 1962 was one such
time.
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No CCTV, cash payments for everything and a description that
would fit hundreds if not thousands of men, I think even Fabian of the Yard
would have been scratching his head. I can’t find any follow up to this story.
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Canadian born Paul Carpenter was a stage and radio actor, a
familiar face in British cinema from 1946 and on TV from 1953 until his death
in 1964 when he collapsed in his theatre dressing room at the age of 46.
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Beniamino Gigli was an Italian opera singer whose career
lasted from 1914 until this worldwide farewell tour in 1955. He died in 1957.
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Leonard John Coley was tried for the murder of
his half-sister Irene but I can’t find out what happened to him. The trial
records at the National Archive are closed until 2030. He is not on the list of
12 people (11 men and Ruth Ellis) that were hung in 1955.
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It’s the mid-1950’s so there must be a reference to UFO’s.
Mr Girvan’s ‘Flying Saucers and Commonsense’ can be picked up on Amazon UK for
as little as £3.76 or as much as £86.46. George Adamski claimed to have
photographed UFO’s and even to have had a Close Encounter of the Third Kind
with a Venusian called Orthon.
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This very disparaging review is of Peter
Ustinov’s play ‘The Moment of Truth’ which, after a short theatre run, was made
for TV and starred Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance. By one of those
coincidences that make you look over your shoulder fearfully, it just happens
that the play is being revived in the theatre for the first time from June 26Click to Readth
until July 20th 2013 at the Southwark Playhouse.
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One of the lesser-known cartoon strips ‘Harry’ about which I
can find no information except that it ran in the Sketch from at least 1953
until 1955. I’m not sure that the visual ‘joke’ works but I do admire the
draughtsmanship.
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Apparently there was a crisis in British
football in March 1955 and I seem to have missed it. Ah well, not to worry.
Someone might find this story interesting.
