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...Good Old Days. In Croydon, England, Miss E. Noriss bit her tongue severely in her sleep, told the doctor that she had been dreaming about prewar meals...
Born. To Mary Churchill Soames, 25, pretty, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 27, Coldstream Guards captain: their first child (and Churchill's fifth grandchild), a son; in Croydon, England. Weight...
...flight to Chungking. In Colombia, another DC-3 airliner with 17 aboard disappeared on a flight to the Barranca Bermeja oilfields from Bogota. The bodies of four crew members and $2,000,000 in gold were recovered from a Philippine Airlines plane which crashed at Hong Kong. At Croydon Airport near London, twelve of 23 passengers were killed when another DC-3 crashed on takeoff...
...Croydon opening Sir Thomas cautiously programed Tchaikovsky's well-tested symphonic poem Romeo and Juliet, Rossini's rousing William Tell overture, Mozart's Symphony in C Major No. 36, Delius' Over the Hills and Far Away. Said the London Times: "The impression was of vitality rather than virtuosity...
...Among London's hard hit districts (Croydon, Woolwich, Greenwich, Orpington, Wandsworth, Lewisham, Beckenham, West Ham, Camberwell and Lambeth) Croydon got it worst. Only 211 of its citizens were killed but 75% of its houses were damaged or destroyed (Coventry's percentage in the 1940 blitz...