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Died. Hugo Sperrle, 68, German field marshal who directed the 1940 aerial blitz of London; in Munich. Massive, monocled and elaborately uniformed, Sperrle flashed almost as many medals as his boss Reich Marshal Hermann Goring. He helped organize the Luftwaffe, probably did as much as any man in setting the pattern for aerial combat in World War II. Judged not guilty of war crimes and "non-concerned" about Naziism, he lived out his days quietly in Landsberg...
When the chamber of the House of Commons was rebuilt after the blitz, it was said to have the world's finest air-conditioning system. But soon M.P.s were complaining about the stuffiness and the drafts. M.P.s in tweeds and woolen underwear objected that Britons are used to, and dress for, indoor temperatures of less than the 70° that satisfies most Americans. On the other hand, when the doors are opened wide, a chilly blast from adjoining rooms leaves the front benches shivering. Prime Minister Winston Churchill once got so cold that he flounced out of the House...
...wolf is always at the door.' There's no use killing any of them, because there is always another. I'm not complaining of him-he keeps us fit and even alive, if we are alert." His best period of writing: during the 1940 blitz on London, when he was a member of the Home Guard. "Göring used to send his boys over every day and night then. And I found it a stimulus to writing poetry. Why, the air was full of gold those days; you had only to reach up and pull...
...Evelyn Fabyan's Bomber's Night, in which a man remarries after his wife is killed in the London blitz, then finds that his first wife has come back to haunt...
Varsity Football--Major Football H--John T. Anderson, George L. Batchelder 3d, Jerome H. Blitz, Richard J. Clasby, Robert N. Cochran, Thomas J. Coolidge, Jr., Robert R. Cowles, Howard A. Cox, Paul J. Crowley, Nicholas G. Culolias, John C. Culver, Richard T. Duback, John H. Ederer, Thayer Fremont-Smith, Arthur E. French Jr., Samuel H. Fyock, 3d, Robert B. Hardy, Arnold Horween, Jr., John J. Jennings, Albert L. Lemay, Eli Manos, Ronald J. Messer, William E. Monteith Jr., John D. Nichols Jr., Ronald P. Noonan, Bernard E. O'Brien, Gilbert W. O'Neil, Arthur M. Pappas, Floyd H. Popell, Henry...