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Soon Mrs. Louise Baumgartner and 25 canteen workers moved into the kitchen, began working on food supplies with the cooperation of the Red Cross. Seven "ambulances"-hardware trucks and station wagons-with a driver and four first-aiders each, were parked behind the post office-quietly, not to alarm the public. Just in case the public did get alarmed, 50 auxiliary police ringed the hotel to keep unauthorized people out. Coast Guardsmen formed a cordon around the wharf, detoured mainstreet traffic that might interfere with operations...
...took down a letter from a Puerto Rican to his wife: "Dear Wife, I am O.K. Everything is about the same." One sailor refused to eat until he found out the food was free. All his money went down with the ship. A luckier sailor was found in the kitchen drying $300 over the stove...
...Congressmen filed hungrily into the ornate, high-ceilinged House restaurant one noonday last week, big pots of white-bean soup bubbled in the kitchen. White-bean soup has been a tradition on the House menu since the day, years ago, when mighty Speaker Joe Cannon thunderously decreed: "By God, we are going to have bean soup in here every day." Uncle Joe's daily lunch was bean soup and cornbread. Daily lunch of thousands of good men & true ever since has been bean soup and cornbread, with maybe a dash of ketchup...
...third day Manager W. A. Brockwell got most of the waiters back, with the promise that he would do something for them, somehow. Once again bean soup moved from kitchen to gullets...
...meaning of Dunkirk hits home when Mr. Miniver pilots his speedboat slowly down the Thames estuary with the flotilla of amateur navigators who set out to rescue their beaten Expeditionary Force. The Nazi mentality becomes viciously and pathetically real when Mrs. Miniver disarms a wounded German flyer in her kitchen, then slaps his face for talking Aryan nonsense. World War II is reduced to the compass of an Anderson shelter when the Minivers and their well-scrubbed youngsters ride out an air raid in their own backyard. It is anybody's backyard, anywhere...