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...penetrated the crypt, but the bells are sound. The Church of St. Sepulchre stands opposite Old Bailey, which was hit three times, but the church, whose tenor bell once tolled for executions, has so far escaped. The Shoreditch bells are untouched. Incendiaries burned holes in the roof of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, legendary church of all those born at sea. The windows were blasted, but the church and its bells are intact. Bow Church was damaged; its bells remain...
During a recent raid on the City of London a bomb shower fired the wooden desks and floor of St. Dunstan's schoolroom. Verger Thompson doused desks and floor with water, causing the bomb fragments to explode. Undaunted, Fireman Thompson stamped out the fragments...
...Verger Stanley Thompson, 60, of Church of St. Dunstan-in-the was awarded the British Empire Medal last week. Verger Thompson did not know much about putting out incendiary bombs, but he did the best he could...
...Poem For the New Year," composed recently by Dunstan Thompson, is a simple yet commanding appeal for faith while faith is crumbling, for reality when all childish dreams have turned to nightmares. The necessity of this moral reform seems obvious to everyone today; its appeal is eloquently voiced by Dunstan Thompson...
Over 100 pages long and selling for only ten cents an issue, the new periodical is edited by Harry Brown and T. Dunstan Thompson '39. The first number will contain poems by W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Richard Eberhardt, George Barker, and Theodore Spencer; and book reviews by John Slocum '36 and David Parry...