The 1950s: You Had To Be There

I learned something about America in 1956: It was a much more complicated place than I'd been brought up to believe. In January 1956, after four months typing in a London basement to earn the 68 I needed for the fare, I sailed from Liverpool to New York on the Britannic , a Cunard Line ship.

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