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...bowler-hatted chimney sweep, Harry Cowley, 60, called "The Guv'nor," blew the lid off Britain's housing problem. In Brighton, jampacked seaside resort, a posse of 400 self-styled Vigilantes (all local war veterans), headed by Cowley, took the law into their own hands. Into three empty, habitable houses, they moved the families of servicemen. The moving was done at night, with hand barrows, in defiance of the law. But the tenants could not be ejected without lengthy eviction proceedings...
...Islands" were back in the British Empire last week. The Germans had surrendered. Cheering crowds lined the harbor of St. Peter Port, the port of Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant, the crowd burst spontaneously into There'll Always Be An England...
Gaslit Years. He grew up in a New York which remains only in tintypes-a city of cobblestoned streets, red horsecars, gaslit saloons, Bowery sluggers and bowler hats...
...game. The best batsman in the leagues is Cliff Daly, a real-estate salesman in his 40s. The best wicketkeeper is probably Evans Hackett, nearing 50. One of the star all-round players is Edmund Holder, an elevator man in his 50s. War did, however, take the top bowler, Roy Huggins. A former shipping clerk, he is one of twelve Negroes now working for a commission at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...During a Spanish-dance number, Universal's ace bowler, from somewhere in the wings, ripped ball after ball across the stage...