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...Ambassador Cudahy got Secretary Hull at 10:50 p.m., was kept busy phoning for three and a half hours, had just signed off when Embassy maids shouted "Les Alle-mands!" and a bomb dropped on a house some 30 yards away...
George B. Foote '41 and Wheaten Johnson '40 spoke on the entries and general rules for the Intercollegiate Meet. Scheduled to begin at noon on Saturday, the contest will continue until Sunday evening. Special events will include spot-landings, bomb-dropping, and a navigation contest on Sunday afternoon...
...with walls nine feet thick had been prepared for His Holiness, and gas masks were distributed to all Vatican City residents, the belligerent powers belatedly came forth with formal assurance that Rome would not be attacked even if Italy got in the war. Reason: Even with the most accurate bomb sights, it would be practically impossible to bomb the Italian capital without hitting the Church's Holy City. No side wants to risk the ire of the Catholic world...
...babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company. Despite the crash, Britain's Home Office is continuing to evacuate children from London to Clacton-on-Sea. And the Clacton hotel operators' offer to allow one-third off on any day a bomb falls or mine bursts near by, made day before the disaster, presumably still stands...
...Kenneth Macfarlane Walker was a captain in Great Britain's Army Medical Corps. Statistically-minded, he noted that a third of the battlefield dead died of chest wounds, that as few as 3% of chest-wound victims reached a dressing station alive. Reason: even a tiny fragment of bomb or shell, piercing the chest cavity, can easily rip a large blood vessel, bring quick death...