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Married. Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, 48, swank-loving, smart-alecking Conservative M.P., who in 1938 claimed half of his estranged wife's $400,000 income, later divorced her for adultery, was blasted for "beachcombing in Honolulu" during the blitz as guest of Doris Duke Cromwell; and Angela Williams, daughter of a British Naval Commander; in London...
...England watched warily for the appearance of Germany's long-promised V2, reputedly a rocket bomb of vast destructive powers and far greater range than V1. Considering Germany's industrial plight, V-2 might seem a forlorn hope to the soberer Herrenvolk. But after the V-1 blitz, Britons were not discounting anything. England would not be entirely safe until Germany...
...crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
...Among European United Nations, England has probably suffered the most damage to historic landmarks. Some 4,000 English churches have been hurt by blitz and robot bombing, 2,800 totally destroyed. Hardest hit: Exeter Cathedral...
...less certainty that U.S. troops would or could be as tough. Pictures in London newspapers showing hungry Germans sitting down to a meal of Army rations while Yanks stood around with pleased smiles (see cut), touched off angry comments from people who had just been through the robot blitz. (A few robombs, apparently launched from planes, still landed in & around London last week...