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...England were evacuated before war was declared. Through last week, no such note was heard except for a non-bombing visit toward Paris by a few Nazi reconnaissance ships, who retreated as soon as spotted, and a jittery performance near Britain's big Thames-mouth base at Chatham...
Although the British censor passed several conflicting reports on this affair (see p. 25), a later "official report" set the gossip straight. A German squadron had indeed started over Chatham. Home fighters had indeed gone up. But so prompt were they, so excited their brother gunners below, that when they returned (after scaring off the German eagles) their own guns powed them. One British pilot crashed dead...
When meteors smack the earth's surface, they are called meteorites. Under their new citizenship, these celestial migrants are subject to earthly laws, even the law of supply & demand. So, at least, a rotund, retired dentist & amateur geologist last week tried to prove at Chatham, Ontario...
When an 88-pound meteorite thunked into Negro Farmer Dan Solomon's best field on the night of July 11, Dr. Luke Smith bustled out from nearby Chatham, bought it for $4. It was jet black and "smooth as velvet" on one side, heavily "thumb-marked" on the other. Soon he had a score of offers for it-$200 from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come...
...Broadcasting Co. of London annoys the augustly uncommercial B. B. C. by spraying Britain, from stations on the Continent, with frankly commercial plugs for British products. Go-getting head of I. B. C. is Leonard Frank Plugge, a sleek and portly gentleman who got himself elected to Parliament from Chatham in 1935. Captain Plugge (he was a Naval Reserve and R. A. F. man during the War) not long ago bought one of London's best addresses, the Leopold de Rothschild house in Park Lane, and equipped it with radio and television in every room. Another house...