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Treks. The provinces have been booming ever since the blitz drove actors out of London, and an evacuee audience with them. Towns like Bath, Cheltenham, Exeter, formerly one-night stands, now have A-1 ratings. Wigan, Lancashire (long a music-hall synonym for the end of the earth) recently had a full-fledged drama festival. Transportation for actors is by rail, and the same as for ordinary citizens -cramped, slow, supperless...
...Academy's poetry prizes against the best poets of France. Secretary of the Academy Raynouard sent him "a few hexameters" of praise. King Louis XVIII gave him a purse of 500 francs. The great author and statesman Chateaubriand called him "the sublime child," received young Hugo in his bath, read him "huge sections of a poetic tragedy." (Victor thought it very dull.) At 18 Hugo was famous...
...like American Volunteer Group Flyer John Hennesy, who first saw his daughter when she was six months old. The delayed pleasure of eating the favorite steak, salad, pie, cake and ice cream occupied many a returned soldier's first hours. Flying Tiger George Burgard luxuriated in a Turkish bath "to get about a year of the Orient out of me." Many were overwhelmed by the first sight of an American girl and some happily did the once despised chore of wiping the family dishes which seemed to put the war as far away as possible...
...lessons learned and the advantages gained, the forces engaged . . . paid a very heavy price." Though losses of an initial landing or raiding force are likely to be much higher in proportion than those of a major expeditionary army, the price of Dieppe was an indication of the blood bath which a real Second Front would become...
...suggested that in the future when pilots feel overwhelming desire to let loose their exuberance of spirit that they immediately land their airplanes in normal manner, taxi slowly to specified parking position, stop engine, climb out of cockpit and take cold bath...