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West Derbyshire (pronounced Darby-shuh) had everything: a young Lord and Coldstream Guards officer, up for the House of Commons against a village cobbler's son whose father had once beaten the young Lord's father for the same seat; a Russian heckler, complete with astrakhan coat; babies to be patted, mud to be slung and dodged, an issue for the nation...
...Indoor Gauping Place, preferably a smithy or a cobbler's shop, for lengthy conversations and lengthier silences...
...Cobbler's Basement. A Cincinnati shoemaker was accused of having lured a young girl into his basement shop and killed her. Police dug into the shop's dirt floor, found an amazing collection of bones that seemed to explain a whole series of recent unsolved crimes. When they took the bones to Professor Krogman, he quickly identified them as those of a cow, five sheep, a turkey, a rat, a pigeon, a barn...
...sold to workers at cost at Easter; the less pious can buy at any time special Varga-type-girl calendars. An Albina soil expert counsels 1,000 Victory gardeners. Haircut absenteeism was cut by persuading nearby barbers to sloganize "An Albina Man Is Always Next." Albina's own cobbler gives three-day service v. three weeks downtown. Result: absenteeism at Albina has dropped from...
...rnberg, the ancient walled town of Cobbler-Poet Hans Sachs and Painter Albrecht Durer, is ringed with war plants. Historic buildings, including Dürer's home (see cut), airplane factories, U-boat engine works, tank factories and railroad centers, crumbled under R.A.F. bombs...