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...they came to the part that goes 'We'll have a barrel of fun,' the ship sank. . . .The darkness was terrifying. There was no disorder- only the moaning and crying of the wounded. We were in water up to our hips. It was terribly cold. . . .When dawn came we sighted twelve lifeboats. . . . In our boat there were only one child, two escorts, and stewardess and two sailors alive...
Civilians lost sleep and work. Each night from 10 p.m. until dawn the noise of bombs and "ack ack" (signaling lingo for A. A. - antiaircraft) was almost unbearable, though the defense barrage was comforting. It was also expensive - ?250,000 nightly - and brought down only 3% to 5% of bagged planes. The siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole...
...Frequent are the letters to Collins berating him as an Irishman for swelling Jewish coffers. Not much more subtle have been the cracks of journalistic small fry such as W. Livingston Larned of the White Plains (N. Y.) Reporter, who recently bawled: "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light the Tin-Pan Alley tune mechanics and melody mongers.. . . 'Suppose we put a feller wavin' an American flag on the cover,' suggests Ike. . . . And Moe, turning from the practice piano, answers, 'You got something there. Big Boy.' " Comparatively restrained...
...city of New York with various digressions on love, glamour, and Americanism. As the Hardy series progresses, moppet Rooney seems to be developing into a menace of national proportions, and one of the cleverest actors on the screens today. His seene with Judy Garland driving through Central Park at dawn in a carriage is the highest point in a considerably above-sea-level picture...
...clock one morning last week a bomb burst over Seattle's water front. By the dawn's early light, rowboats scurried into Elliott Bay. Some anchored. Others rowed around. For four hours, ferryboats plying between Seattle and Bremerton had to detour to avoid the milling fleet. It was the grand finale of the Ben Paris Salmon Derby, oldest and biggest of the Pacific Northwest's latest sport craze...