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Owing to the crowding of people into damp bomb shelters, public health services have observed an increase in the number of respiratory diseases and fear a repetition of the influenza epidemic which took such a large toll throughout the world during the last war, Dr. Gordon remarked...
...Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, handsomest member of the Royal Family, came dutifully to a halt in front of a rope stretched across a street. From it hung a sign which in the past fortnight has become a familiar sight in many parts of the city: "DANGER-UNEXPLODED BOMB...
Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car. When His Royal Highness jumped out, grinning and ruefully rubbing his ears, which still rang with the concussion, women gathered round the Duke. A frightened little girl came up and put her hand in his. He held it while he chatted with the people. "It's grand to see you here," said they. "How's your wife and youngsters?" "Fine, thanks!" said the Duke...
...once the sitting room of the royal housemaids (see cut, p. 31). From the Palace George VI broadcast this week on a globe-girdling hookup, announced that to reward "worthily and promptly the many and glorious . . . deeds of gallantry" now being done by British civilians amid the havoc of bomb raids His Majesty has created the "George Cross" and the "George Medal...
More than 50 children and 12 mothers, all refugees from bomb-torn Britain, have already been placed in homes of faculty members through the help of a committee of American Defense, Harvard Group...