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...Forecast in the weekly Brighton (Mass.) Citizen: "For Japan and vicinity - Heavy showers of bombs with scattered clouds of planes, probably followed by parachutes; a rapidly growing cold anger starting in the U.S. coastal regions and spreading throughout the U.S. is moving towards the west with increasing speed...
Andrew Fo Ing, Honolulu, T. H.; Fred L. Jaquith, Brighton, Mass.; Joseph J. Koss, Chicago, Ill.; James J. Murphy, Dublin, Calif.; Robert W. Painter, Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jesse L. Perry Jr., Nashville, Tenn.; Robert C. Rice, Mount Airy, Md., John L. Robins, Canton, N. Y.; Edward M. Rollins, Bristol, Tenn.; Albert E. Selenkow, Baltimore, Md.; Donald A. Starr, Butler, Pa.; Maurice A. Tenenbaum, Louisville, Ky.; Donald P. Watkins, Detroit, Mich.; and William G. Wright, Winnetka...
...Churchill and Chelsea and Brighton and Clare
Britons were reluctant to give up their little luxuries-weekends at Brighton, afternoons messing about in the rose garden, outings with the children to Kew Gardens or the Zoo, drinks and darts in the pub around the corner. Being endowed with exaggerated poetic imagination, the nation got a mild case of "crisis stomach" worrying about bombing and gassing, about Mr. Chamberlain and what would happen after the war. But through it all ran a thin wire of pluck, which showed itself best in humor. Those were the days when a West End druggist put a placard in his window: "Bismuth...
...first-rate amateur company which used to play in pubs, giving plays by Shaw, Clifford Bax, Ivor Brown. Soon to open as the Uniform Theatre is the Garrick on Charing Cross Road, which will admit the boy or girl friend of all war workers. Encouraging theatre attendance in Brighton and Ports mouth is a rule: those who have ticket stubs for cinema or theatre are exempt from the curfew...