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...thirty-odd people in our London office are looking forward to England's best Christmas since the blitz (it was in Christmas week 1940 that our office came nearest to being wrecked). Quite a few of them will probably spend it at the hideaway we rented for them out in Buckinghamshire and I hope rationing will let them celebrate with something a lot cheerier than dehydrated meat and boiled cabbage...
...over the Soviet radio was back home last week and talking last week. CBS's dark, thin Larry Lesueur, 33, rolled into Russia via Archangel a year ago. Onetime United Press reporter, he had covered the R.A.F. in France from war's outbreak through Dunkirk, the London blitz as apprentice to CBS's Edward R. Murrow. In talking about Russian radio Lesueur told a lot about Russia...
...home is the largish, comfortable, book-filled Master's House at University College, Oxford, but he spends much time in his cell-like London Government office, living in a basement Reform Club where, since the blitz bombed him out, he sleeps comfortably in a passage...
...blitz. After the lightninglike operations of the week before,* many wondered at the deliberate pace last week. One explanation was that the element of surprise was gone. The First Army was moving perforce from bases set up on an alien shore, lugging equipment to fight an enemy in positions which the Germans had time to prepare...
London urchins sang a new verse, added during the blitz...