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...minority quickly recovered from this blitz attack, and Councilor W. Dennison Swan '17 shouted: "This is a shame and a disgrace to the council . . . I can see the fine hand with the Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...
...name in British aviation for nearly 40 years. When Germany's top World War I ace, Von Richthofen, was finally shot down, Canada's ace Captain Roy Brown, in a Sopwith Camel fighter was credited with the kill; when the Germans came back in 1940's blitz, Sopwith's Hurricanes bagged the lion's share of the bombers. And when the Germans opened up with their V-1s, Sopwith Meteors (Britain's first jets) went up to catch and shoot them down...
...famed British biochemist, who had devised Britain's palate-poor but vitamin-rich World War II diet of cabbage salads, carrots, grey wheaten bread, potato pastry, and dried eggs. Scientific adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton he had developed an emergency meal for the bombed-out called blitz soup, and later a predigested food for starved survivors of Hitler's prison camps. A quiet, modest but convivial man, Sir Jack (he refused to be known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated with a government scientific worker in a book about English food, then...
...presidential nomination in his hand, should a candidate play cat & mouse with it? Nor did he make any reference to the recent history of such shows of confidence. In 1948, on the eve of the Republican Convention balloting, Bob Taft called a press conference and told newsmen: "The Dewey blitz has been stopped...
...junior group of sons and daughters arrived from dinner at the Union and filled the first balcony just before the start of the concert. Informality is the keynote of the Boston Pops, and by in termination a balcony-launched blitz of paper airplanes a blackened the skies over the hall. By the close of the concert the orchestra and Fiedler himself were engaging in the paper air-raid...