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...State Legislature, became the first U.S. hero's widow of World War II to run for political office. For your information, I wish to state that in a contested election, held in October of 1942, I was elected to the State Legislature of Connecticut from the city of Bristol...
HELEN W. ZBIKOWSKI Bristol, Conn...
...Legislator Zbikowski (see cut), Democrat, mother of one, sister of U.S. Infantry Captain Edward Wozenski, one of the heroes of the Sicily campaign (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943), beat her Bristol opponent (a World War I veteran) neatly in a forthright no-punches-pulled campaign...
...opening show set the pattern for the series: two masters-of-ceremonies (Cinemactress Anna Neagle in London, Actor Philip Merivale in Manhattan); two orchestras (Glenn Miller's A.A.F.T.C. band and the London Fire Service Orchestra) ; British comedians Flanagan & Allen v. U.S. comic Red Skelton; Irving Berlin from Bristol...
...epidemic, had an outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times the influenza deaths for the previous week. Britain's Ministry of Health was not sufficiently impressed...