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Last week Adolf Hitler spoke in Munich's old Löwenbräu beer cellar to Nazi veterans of 1923's abortive Beer Hall Putsch. No bomb went off in the hall this time, as it had two years ago. No R.A.F. bombers visited the city, as they had one year ago. The Führer made all the noise...
Blithe Spirit (by Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson). Last spring Noel Coward,* erasing the war from his mind, stole out of bomb-scarred London to a quiet Welsh country house and in five days tossed off an "improbable farce." At the same time, he pulled off a nearly impossible job. One stage ghost was usually a little more than even Shakespeare could handle; Coward has done handsomely with two. One sprightly stage joke usually gives a playwright a good first...
Eastward their objective was Kerch, at the extremity of the peninsula-a likely spot from which to bomb, and perhaps from which to invade, the Caucasus...
...fall semester began late (October), to let pupils help with the late wheat harvest; in London it started early (August), to make up for lost time. London's 128,000 pupils, a third of normal, were on double sessions because two-thirds of London's schools were bomb-or fire-damaged. The teacher shortage is serious: 18,000 schoolmasters have enlisted. British schools this autumn plugged two new subjects: U.S. history and first aid. The carrying of gas masks is still compulsory for all school children...
...teeth of big German guns across the Channel, most of the 1,300 moppets still left in the city emerged from chalk-cliff cave shelters to hour-and-a-half sessions of the three Rs in six shell-scarred schoolhouses (glassless windows were boarded, roofs patched from bomb hits...