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...symbolic menace in the frivolities of Paris, continuing despite blackout and mobilization. The city's latest dither was occasioned by an attempt by the couturier Mainbocher* to bring back the Victorian wasp-waisted corset, as ill-adapted to modern habits as was the French High Command to the blitz technique that Berlin was perfecting over the French horizon...
...followed the Communist Party into guerrilla warfare against His Majesty's Government, and in January 1941 Herbert Morrison's Home Office banned it. Solemn Scotland Yarders moved into the printing offices, solemnly played rummy while the Worker staff got out appeals against the ban. The public, with blitz problems at hand, reacted only dimly...
Died. Alice Duer Miller, 68, popular U.S. novelist, whose long poem, The White Cliffs, became her biggest success; in Manhattan. Her books became popular musicomedies, motion pictures (Come Out of the Kitchen; Roberta). The White Cliffs was published at the beginning of the London blitz. Read over the air by Lynn Fontanne, it sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S., 100,000 in England. Its loose-rhythmed, nearly conversational verse was intended to say "all the truth I could about England." She concluded: ". . . In a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live...
...ninth inning opened with Harvard out in front with a safe 7-3 lead, when Stuka for Westover, knocked one out with the bases loaded. Jim Gallagher on third threw a wild one over Bill Fitz's head at first and the blitz was on, with the soldiers gaining three runs on this error to tie the score for the game...
...been dropped on a more concentrated target. Delighted Britons could consider a few comparative statistics. Cologne was hit by 3,000 tons of bombs. Coventry was devastated by one-tenth that total. And the greatest weight of explosive dropped on London in a 24-hour period during the great Blitz was less than 500 tons...