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...detonate. Manhole covers went spinning into the air like tiddlywinks and sections of paving disintegrated as though from dynamite blasts. Birds tumbled dead out of the air. As night fell, the flames lighted scenes of surrealistic desolation. The hospitals were full of burned men and women, and as firemen moved into the edges of the great fire behind white curtains of water they began to meet the blackened, unrecognizable dead...
...Izmir, departing German diplomats burned so many papers that they set fire to the consulate. As the Germans had locked themselves in for privacy, the firemen found themselves locked out. Ankara's swank Karpic Restaurant was the scene of an embarrassing incident. Just as slick German Ambassador (and Spy-Master) Franz von Papen entered, the orchestra was beating out Pistol Packin-Mama. With truly Turkish tact, it slid with few fumbles into the Merry Widow Waltz...
When Poland was invaded, Hanna Kister was alone at the office. She discovered that World War II had begun when she tried to cash a check, found the bank closed. Then the telephone stopped working. The lights went out. Police and firemen disappeared. A few intellectuals appeared at the office, quickly left. "Writers are always nervous," says Mrs. Kister...
...away from work for certain periods of time, no matter how unpopular we are." Wife & daughter want to guard the strength Franklin Roosevelt regained in his rest at Bernard Baruch's Hobcaw Barony. Now that the President has abandoned his luncheons with politicians, generals, admirals, diplomats and visiting firemen, Anna Boettiger frequently lunches with him, and the conversation is deliberately kept light...
Number Two. Fires sprang up everywhere. Smoke turned the afternoon into night. Police, firemen, troops poured in to fight fire and panic. Just 30 minutes after the first explosion, a second created still more havoc. Fire threatened to engulf a city of 1,500,000. U.S., British, Indian troops fought flames for five days. As they rushed from one danger spot to another, the Americans sang Deep in the Heart of Texas. Sappers demolished hundreds of buildings to check the fire...