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...most part, sleeping farm people were killed here & there and hayricks were ignited. But one monster land mine (1,000-lb. bomb which descends slowly and silently by parachute) struck the heart of Dublin's Jewish quarter. It blew Eire's chief synagogue to pieces, damaged so many houses that 40 families took to the streets. By the lurid light of rescue flares, 26 people were rushed to hospitals, including a rabbi, his wife and daughter...
These strange, scattered, seemingly irrelevant bombings might have been the work of Nazis off their course, unloading to save fuel. But Dublin isn't blacked out as Britain is. Its thousands of street lights are easily seen from the air. How account for the Dublin bombing when bombers could have flown a few minutes less and unloaded in the Irish Sea? How account for the daylight bombing...
...week's end German bombers returned to London in another incendiary attack but thousands of cheering civilian fire-watchers stamped out the flames before they could catch hold. Only hint of something new was the mysterious practice adopted by scattered Nazi bombers of dropping their eggs near neutral Dublin...
...years. Its contract ended with the 148th edition. But this week the 149th was scheduled to come out bright & shiny as ever, kitchen-nail hole and all. Its new publisher: shrewd, shaggy Robb Sagendorph, Boston social registerite and Harvardman ('22), who publishes and edits the monthly Yankee, at Dublin...
...Little Squire was born in County Limerick 15 years ago. His dam was a Welsh pony, his sire an unknown thoroughbred. When he was six (and known as First Attempt), he humbled Ireland's best "leppers," jumping 6 ft. 6 in. in the stonewall class at Dublin's famed Horse Show...