Word: cromer
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Working with Bank of England Gover nor Lord Cromer and his British col leagues, the Americans got onto tele phone lines stretching around the world...
...Cromer, England, Edward Atkins explained to police: "I shot my wife because she told me to, and I have always done what I was told." In Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, José Licea explained why he had shot his sister-in-law: he had mistaken her for his wife...
...onetime soap-opera star), a cast, and judicious music and sound effects told a simple, effective story. "Troy was a town," said the narrator. "So was Jericho. Lidice was a town. Likewise Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula, later to be known as Los Angeles. And Cromer was a town, and is a town, and you'll find it on a map of the east coast of England, in the district called East Anglia, facing the North Sea, facing Germany...
...half hour Corwin's drama examined Cromer. There was a church, bomb-scarred but upright; a pier, wrecked in the middle to make it useless to invading Nazis; the beach where as many as 75,000 vacationists once toasted in the summer sun; Rust's nearly empty department store on High Street; a baker named Baker...
...middle of a big war-only 20 minutes flying time distant from a Nazi aerodrome. People said "God Bless" to each other the way Americans say "Good-by." The maid at the hotel said "Thank you" each time she served a dish. A salvage worker proudly told how Cromer won the East Anglia salvage contest. There were echoes of a hot controversy about whether the church should set its wall back to make more room for parked cars. A German bomb had settled that...