It is over 45 years since Denzil Freeth retired from the House of Commons and 55 years since he was first elected as an MP for Basingstoke. For those of us in the 1959-64 parliament, Freeth was the ...
Denzil Freeth, who died on April 26 aged 85, seemed destined for high office when he entered the Commons at 31 and joined Harold Macmillan's government. But he left politics at 40, having found ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Arthur Verge was ready to give up his search when he came across the newspaper article on microfilm — a vivid account of how surfer George Freeth, on Dec. 16 ...
Even the best swimmers can get into difficulty in the water, especially in the open ocean. There are any number of dangers (most of which boil down to hubris): currents, waves, tides, cramp, even ...
MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE is a Fulbright journalist in Berlin and author of a novel, "Too Much of Nothing." The george freeth memorial in Redondo Beach is a salt-bitten bust of a lifeguard in an ...
Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy. --F. Scott Fitzgerald All the wannabes who watch the surfing scene and all the hodaddies who actually hit the water are following in the wet footsteps of ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Arthur Verge was ready to give up his search when he came across the newspaper article on microfilm — a vivid account of how surfer George Freeth, on Dec. 16 ...