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While yellow crocuses bloomed in Hyde Park, and on Oxford Street bright bunches of daffodils sold for 7s.6d. ($1.50), Britain counted up one day last week and found that it had been at war for 2,000 days & nights-2,000 days & nights of invasion threats, blitz, robombs, immense suffering, gnawing discomfort (equally immense) and imperturbable defiance of near defeat. For most of those 2,000 days Britons had stared into the hollow eyes of disaster and death; it had not occurred to them to wince. Now the unseasonably warm winds brought not only the scents of thawing soil...
...photograph a dance number on the stage of London's Music Box Theater (motto: "We never missed a show"). From a fatherly old stage carpenter on the fly gallery he hears the history of the little music hall's gallant struggle to carry on during the blitz, and the love story of its leading lady, Rosalind Bruce (Miss Hayworth), and a handsome R.A.F. squadron leader (Lee Bowman...
Squirearchy's Decline. The Headmistress, tenth and latest of the Thirkell line, is just like the other nine. When Headmistress Madeleine Sparling evacuated her blitz-threatened London girls' school to Harefield Park in Barsetshire, impoverished Squire Belton of Harefield welcomed the fat rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing...
...population little more than one-third that of the U.S., had suffered as many casualties-from its armed forces alone-as had the U.S. in three years. Britain's toll: 176,081 killed, 38,275 missing, 193,788 wounded, 154,968 prisoners of war. In addition, the blitz and the buzz-bomb had taken a toll of 57,298 killed (including 7,250 children and 23,757 women), and injured 78,818 more. No question, the bloody 'eroes...
Kiss the Blood off My Hands was published by Jarrolds in England in 1940, shortly before Jarrolds was bombed out in the blitz. It was the first novel of 37-year-old Gerald Butler, a onetime chemist who is now director of an advertising firm, and it sold 232,000 copies. He has since written three more novels...