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Show Inames... 1 in the news Police Commissioner Valentine of gang-plagued New York city urged his bluecoat patrolmen to be "rough, tough, and obnoxious" to hoodlums; while Charles Laughton, of Anglo-movie Anglo-movie fame, compared the great Dr. Sam Johnson to roast beef, Yorkshire York-shire pudding, English bluebells, or the Britannic woods and moors. One bookworm added that Laughton, in his way, was the greatest English rationalist ra-tionalist since the dear, departed Eighteenth-century Sam. A London truck-driver, knowing not what he did, hit and mortally injured a 75-year-oldster. His name !was Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher. He was a former M. P. But more than that, he was one of the world's outstanding historians, and an international in-ternational cultural figure. There, too. died the equally famous fa-mous Kid McCoy, whom the world's "madness" apparently drove to self-destruction. self-destruction. The Kid's real name was Norman Selby: a champ middleweight mid-dleweight who either was on the up I and up, or else on the down and down. |