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During a recent raid on the City of London a bomb shower fired the wooden desks and floor of St. Dunstan's schoolroom. Verger Thompson doused desks and floor with water, causing the bomb fragments to explode. Undaunted, Fireman Thompson stamped out the fragments...
...ladies kissed us good night," reported Caroline, 12, and Eddie, 9. "They meant it kindly, but it is not very nice being kissed by people you don't know. Especially ladies who get on committees." Eddie was baffled by Toronto mores. Delighted with his first experience in a shower bath, he invited a little English refugee girl to share it with him. A refugee committee woman found them splashing happily together, howled in dismay: "You dirty little wretches! Little boys and girls don't do that sort of thing in this country...
Most engaging comment on Japan's intentions was made by Minister to Australia Tatsuo Kawai, who does not mind being photographed in his pajamas or under the shower. Minister Kawai announced in Adelaide that he was tired of hearing the word "drive" to describe Japan's intentions. Asked whether Japan would move southward as far as Australia, Mr. Kawai said that would depend on the provocation. Asked whether Australia had been provocative, he said there had been a few pinpricks. Asked whether Japan desired territorial expansion toward the Indies, he said territorial expansion was an old-fashioned phrase...
When World War II began, John Grierson was in Ottawa making documentaries for Canada. In England his trained colleagues were turning out some 50 documentaries yearly. When the Government awoke from the cold shower of Dunkirk, it set these Grierson-trained technicians to making war documentaries. Soon the Ministry of Information was supplying every British cinemansion with at least one picture a week...
Malcolm P. McNair Jr. '42 was recently named manager of next year's ski team, by retiring manager William Wigglesworth '41. NcNair has been in the news on several occasions, the last time when an over-long shower of his deluged one whole floor of his entry in Dunster House...