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...further explanation. A Los Angeles lawyer named John F. Clark sued for half of the $592,719. Commenting on his suit, Lawyer Clark explained that he took a "fatherly interest" in young Lester Barlow years ago. One result, said Mr. Clark, was a half interest in the Barlow bomb. He averred that he had a copy of a contract to this effect, explained that the original had been lost or destroyed. Inventor Barlow replied that Mr. Clark "never put one red cent into the work," nevertheless received $12,000 in 1924. Another of Mr. Barlow's woes...
Somerset House, where wills going back to 1382-including those of Shakespeare, Nelson, Gladstone-are filed, lost its lovely staircase. John Nash's nobly curving Regent Street was ripped by a time bomb. A German squadron boasted it had toasted victory in champagne in the sky, and then dropped the empty bottles on the palace which was bought from the Duke of Buckingham by one of Britain's German Kings, George III. Rougher ammunition blasted the palace five times, and tore at the spot where millions have watched the changing of the guard. Hit was the paneled house...
Fleet Street's newspaper row got its share one night. The Herald, which was bombed by a Zeppelin in World War I, was hit again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...
...churches, many of them flimsy as eggshells, suffered badly. A soo-pound bomb embedded itself deep in the street near St. Paul's Cathedral, which sits unsteadily on foundations of wet sand. The delayed action of such bombs as this and the first one which damaged Buckingham Palace was regulated not by a timing mechanism, which would not survive the bomb's fall, but by the slow action of acid eating through a metal plate. After four days the St. Paul's bomb was finally removed by a "suicide squad" and exploded in a marsh outside...
Three days later it was. While the King & Queen waited out the last of an eight and a half hour alarm with a morning cup of tea the whole palace shivered with the thud of bombs from low-diving Nazi raiders. A bomb dropping through the glass roof of the private chapel, a converted conservatory, had blasted chunks of masonry out of the wall, demolished the altar, shattered a mother-of-pearl cross. In the midst of the rubble they found Queen Victoria's ornately bound Family Bible. But already removed to safety was the gold altar plate...