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  In Paris during 1924 he was beaten after only four moves by a Monsieur Lazard....
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• The Least Successful Animal Rescue The firemen's strike of 1978 made possible one of the great animal rescue attempts of all time.
  Valiantly, the British Army had taken over emergency firefighting and on 14 January they were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat which had become trapped up a tree....
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• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
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  he British Army had taken over emergency firefighting and on 14 January they were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat which had become trapped up a tree....