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What drove the blood to Mayor La-Guardia's head was the refusal of some draft boards to defer his carefully selected and trained policemen and firemen as essential employes. The Mayor might further have observed that not only is many a draft board's shirt front stiff, but that no two boards wear the same size shirt. Some of New York City's 280 local boards deferred policemen and firemen while others did not. Some gave deferment to such "necessary" workers as the manager of a meat store, an executive of a firm making babies...
...night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire. . . . The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. . . . The sky was red and angry, and overhead, making a ceiling in the vast heavens, there was a cloud of smoke...
...they were, at week's end the Luftwaffe returned to its central task with a freshly furious fire-raid on London. A few hours before Franklin Roosevelt's more-aid-to-Britain speech, hundreds of huge blazes severely taxed the courage of London's thousands of firemen and thousands of volunteers. The Guildhall and other ancient monuments in The City went down in avalanches and up in flames-the worst fire in that part of London since 1666. And elsewhere in the capital the forces of Commander Aylmer Newton George Fire-brace, head of London...
...Report on England: November, 1940 (Simon & Schuster; $1.50), expanded from a series of newspaper stories written by Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor of Manhattan's afternoon tabloid, PM. He flew to Britain last fall, spent two weeks listening to air-raid alarms, looking at shelters, talking with newsmen, firemen, doctors, pilots, officials -including Winston Churchill, Ernest Bevin. Then he flew home...
...moppet in Waukegan, Ill., where his father ran a haberdashery shop, Benny fiddled with juvenile orchestras, played for dances and firemen's balls. Proud hope of his family in those early years was that Benny would develop into a concert violinist. Instead he teamed at 17 with a vaudeville pianist named Cora Salisbury in an act called "From Grand Opera to Ragtime." As part of his business in this turn (for which he got $15 a week), Benny sawed away with the little finger of his bow hand elegantly extended, pretended to be mesmerized by its motion back & forth...