Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Into the Earth. But the biggest problem of the week was that of shelter. In the first months of the war the Government distributed Anderson shelters (named for Minister for Home Security Sir John Anderson), light steel affairs for back yards. They were designed to 'stop splinters, not bombs, and have proved ad mirable for that limited purpose. Their great fault was that they were not big enough to sleep...
...Prime Minister set the Ministry for Home Security to work. Vaguely Sir John Anderson promised ventilation, light, warmth. Department stores opened their basements, and when the big John Lewis & Co. building was hit, 700 trooped safely out to another shelter. To keep people happy, Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper announced plans for portable cinemas against dreary winter evenings. The Arts Theatre Club and ballets moved their performances to the lunch hour. Winston Churchill each day perused particulars of civilian casualties and property damage. He accelerated systems of pension and relief, and marshaled 2,200 doctors and nurses against epidemics...
...shelter, he decorated widows and parents of 13 Navy, Army and Air Force officers who had died in action. While the afternoon sirens moaned he visited the Air Ministry in the uniform of Marshal of the R. A. F., watched the activities during the "alert," then visited Sir John Anderson at the Home Security Ministry...
Captain: Douglas MacD. Anderson...
Last week the Coward series began its second hitch at El Capitan, with Rosalind Russell and Herbert Marshall in Still Life, Claire Trevor in Family Album. Judith Anderson in Hands Across the Sea. Binnie Barnes in Red Peppers. Not so good were Constance Bennett and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in We Were Dancing. After watching his daughter go through her paces, Richard Bennett testily observed: "Connie was born an amateur, she always has been an amateur, and still is an amateur." Another amateur, Elsa Maxwell, giggled through Ways and Means, displaying her broad beam in a series of startling stoops...