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...cheerful On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, sung by Author Johnnie Mercer, who never quite explains the nature of his raucous reunion, and Bing Crosby, who continually calls for a gypsy moth...
...afternoon bands of hooligans had made fists outside the British Embassy and firemen had held their hoses ready to syringe them away in case their excitement led to violence. As night fell the city's lights failed to wink on. The Vatican was blacked out too, lest its neutral and holy illumination guide airborne enemies on a raid. Inside, disheartened Pius XII knelt for an hour in his chapel in prayer. British diplomats would be evacuated by warship to Albania, thence could make their way into still neutral Greece, it was said. The Simplon-Orient Express had, of course...
Legend says that on at least two occasions outsiders got in: once when firemen were admitted to put out a fire-after first being initiated into the society; another time when a Keys man, pretending to have lost his Bones key, got a campus policeman to unlock the door...
Married. Sir John William Frederick Fagge, 29, farmhand-baronet of Faver-sham, Kent, England (TIME, April 29); and Ivy Frier, housemaid; in Kent. Sir John's fellow volunteer firemen made an archway of hatchets as the couple left the church...
...aged Clacton couple, killed in their sleep when the bomber fell, and 162 curious townsfolk injured when she exploded. None was hurt who obeyed the rules, took cover in cellars, lay doggo until the all clear signal. A raid shelter a few yards from the crater was unharmed. While firemen and volunteers were clearing away the ruins, three babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company. Despite the crash, Britain's Home Office is continuing to evacuate children from London to Clacton-on-Sea. And the Clacton hotel operators' offer to allow...