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...women shoppers. They staged a hectic bargain rush in one of the big West End stores at the very moment when scores of firemen were digging through tons of debris in the same store in frantic efforts to release 200 clerks entombed in the basement night before by a bomb...
...Street last week. Most ignored air-raid alarms until German bombers were actually overhead and they dawdled and browsed over displays of goods ticketed "For Christmas," in no hurry to pick out presents. Outside famed Peter Robinson's, housewives queued up in a long line to get such "Bomb Bargains" as five-guinea ($21) gowns marked down to two pounds ($8) and "Bomb-Soiled Aertex Jumpers" almost given away at sixpence...
...million camp beds for use in home shelters have now been sold in London alone and "Blitzbachelors" (husbands who have sent their wives to the country for safety) are doffing British decorum to sleep nightly in the narrow family shelters on cots beside the cots of their housemaids. A bomb last week ripped the side wall off a Mayfair mansion of stately appearance, revealed it to have been one of London's most sumptuously equipped bagnios. The walls were covered with erotic frescos rivaling those of Pompeii, and a giggling crowd soon gathered on the sidewalk to ogle...
Judges, quite as much as shopkeepers, continued "business as usual" under the Blitz. A bomb heavily damaged one of the London police courts last week, but as soon as chunks of debris had been shoveled out of the main courtroom, the magistrate resumed trial of usual petty police-court cases - drunkenness, pocket-picking, etc. A 74-year-old widow, Mrs. Amelia Graham, was hauled into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined...
Saddest case of the week was the conviction on looting charges of four of Britain's heroic "suicide-squad" helpers of Captain Robert Davies, famed for his safe removal of a delayed-action bomb from in front of St. Paul's (TIME, Sept. 30). Obliged to give the four hero-looters sentences of nine months at hard labor, the magistrate observed: "I am awfully sorry...