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Most of the world's famed cathedrals spanned centuries in building: Canterbury and Peterborough, 400 years; Winchester, 500; Lincoln, 600; Notre Dame, 700; St. Peter's, 200. But England's graceful Salisbury was finished in 80 years. New York's St. John's has been 51 years abuilding. Bishop Manning will be 77 next week...
Eleanor. In Peterborough, England, an airman's wife gave birth to a girl in the London & North Eastern Railway station. Her name: (in honor of the L. & N. E. R.) Eleanor...
Liverpool and Hull, as the seaward ventricle and auricle of the region, are prime targets of Britain's midsection. York, Derby, Peterborough, Spalding, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...
...Britain's first World War II Ace (five Nazi kills, a possible sixth), convalescing from 20 shrapnel wounds; and his best girl Joyce Phillips, repertory actress, who doesn't believe in getting married until the war is over (TIME, April 15); after a 90-mile dash from Peterborough, where she is playing in The Importance of Being Earnest, to Birmingham to buy an engagement ring...
Cobber Kain's bag includes two Dorniers, three Messerschmitts. His talisman: A piece of Maori jade attached to his identification disc. His best girl: Joyce Phillips, repertory actress, last week playing at Peterborough in The Importance of Being Earnest. Said she: "I don't believe in getting married until the war is over...