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...During the Blitz the village had known a finer hour. In the silence before raids the guards had met, waited and talked. The bombs jarred loose ancient reserves, buried notions of guilt, stupidities and intolerances that lost their power in the irregular hum of the bombers and the distant crump of gunfire. During the broken, hesitant confidences of night "from time to time, a sudden low flash of faintly green light would appear on the eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed and then abruptly, on some unseen order, vanished instantaneously, leaving an even deeper darkness. . . . Bright, large sparks...
...gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...
...press reminded wealthy, irascible Governor Prentice Cooper of his campaign promise to repeal the tax. One by one, Prentice Cooper-who fondles his pet parrot "Laura" while transacting State business-called in the legislators, demanded their votes. From Memphis came the affirmative nod of white-haired Democratic Boss Ed Crump. After that it was just a breeze; the legislators repealed the law in jig time...
...England monitors on the German frequencies, listening for Göring's gutturral voice, 'heard instead the sudden crump of bombs, a confusion of muffled shouts. A flustered voice announced that Marshal Göring had been delayed for a moment. A military band brayed...
Ironically, it was the hand of another political boss that sealed Ed Flynn's doom. His rejection by the Senate had not been certain until Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar announced his opposition, at the behest of Tennessee's aging Democratic Boss Edward H. Crump. What Ed Crump's reasons were remained obscure, but in whatever political revenge he achieved he had helped others express resentment at cynical politics...