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While creating a window, Connick must calculate how that window will look in all weather and from all distances. He frequently paints water color pictures showing its appearance at dawn, noon, during a rainstorm and so forth. The result, in his words, is a "symphony of color which fascinates one as it goes through all its phases...
Treachery ashore disarmed the Norwegian ships and coast gun crews at Norway's naval base of Horten, across Oslo Fjord from Moss. But the Norse mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling...
...night of April 8, followed by long convoys of transports. With few exceptions, the Norse forts and naval units did not fire (see p. 19). Major Quisling's friends told them not to. At Fornebo Airport outside the city, when the Nazi Air Force began arriving at dawn, it was necessary to kill 120 Norwegian soldiers before the rest got the point. Oslo, and other points of entry, were betrayed from within by their sworn defenders before the people knew what was happening. At far-north Narvik, Major Quisling's good friend Colonel Konrad Bertram Holm Sundlo, commanding...
...dawn at week's end, without escort and with a pilot who demanded $1,200 for the 425-mile run to Trieste, the Ankara started creeping up inside the islands which fringe that rugged coast. The Ankara made Trieste unattacked. More bauxite boats were due to follow. Italy and Yugoslavia conferred over the weekend about closing the Adriatic to belligerent warships...
...Public Morality Council, signed by its chairman, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London, 52, an athletic, old-school-tie moralist with a wife and six sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers were accosted by 35 women along a 120-yard...