Aberdeen Herald headline, 15 April 1912: ABERDEEN MAN LOST AT SEA
(article reporting the sinking of the Titanic) Unhappily, the story of this headline appears to be untrue. Click here for a discussion which mentions another pleasant headline: Trotsky lived for a while in New York, apparently leading to a headline in a local paper in 1917 which read BRONX MAN LEADS RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. [To return to this page from that discussion use your browser’s back button.]
Stuart Hall once told me that he had been to a fair on Hampstead Heath and won a prize—two goldfish in a plastic bag. Going home in the bus, two small boys were eyeing the fish. Stuart said: ‘Would you like them?’ They said yes. Stuart gave them the fish, and said, pointing: ‘You must call them by their names—Lenin and Trotsky.’
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