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Noel Coward, on a morale-building tour of South Africa, nettled Afrikaner Nationalist Politico Paul Sauer by his imperial arrival in Cape Town. Egg-bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring...
"Then the plane leveled off a little. I took off my chute and went forward to the pilot's compartment. The radio room was a mess, every loose thing smashed and thrown all over the place.
On the way back the two women stopped at an inn. William Gray, an R.A.F. pilot who did not get away at Dunkirk, was hiding there. The proprietor did not want Gray to stay; if he left, the Nazis would capture him. Kitty and Mrs. Shiber secreted him in the...
Seagrave made it on rafts, ponies and at last a first-class compartment on an Indian .train where he slept on the floor "to ease my conscience." At the end of the book Seagrave is in Assam, happily planning hospital facilities to take care of the refugees out of Burma...
> Refrigerators will contain a violet-ray compartment for tenderizing meats and an ice-cube ejector worked by turning a crank.