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...Ameche's attempts to get around the British censor, to cable in the greatest story of his career--the invasion of England. In the great climax, just as the invasion is coming off, he finds himself trapped in a cellar with nothing but a beautiful girl, a time-bomb, and a teletype machine. The question is, what shall she do? Shall he lose the girl (who doesn't want him to do anything without first asking the censor) by sending the story without the censor's consent? Or shall he disappoint his boss and his much-talked-of ninety million...
Everything was right. The moon was bright, but ghostly and tricky with mist. Swarms of British attack planes thundered down on the night's target, peppered & salted it with bomb, cannon, machine gun. In the milky darkness half a mile away, big Whitley bombers dropped clusters of parachute troops, their faces and even their teeth blackened by burnt cork...
...present, First Aid is nominally under the supervision of the Hygiene Building, which has been too busy to devote much time to it. If a bomb drops on the First Aid headquarters in Leverett House, should the headquarters be moved to another room in the House, or to the already prepared room in Lowell House? The Medical Department has refused to state definitely whether patients should be moved or whether First Aid workers should invariably wait for the doctor's arrival. The Hygiene Building has not prescribed definite remedies or precautions for definite injuries, leaving it to the discretion...
After a gas bomb has fallen, an area of many yards around it must be isolated until the poison gas has either been counteracted or washed away, Captain Friell of the Cambridge Fire Department, who has been to a chemical warfare school revealed yesterday...
VICHY--French authorities announced tonight that four youths shot and killed a German sentry and hurled a bomb at a German military post in a school building on the Rue Tanger in Paris...