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Reconstruction. Londoners were determined to turn Hitler's destruction into a "Heaven-sent" opportunity for civic improvement, and as dynamite squads reduced tottering walls and chimneys, the press blossomed with articles on post-war construction. Wrote Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, architect assigned to the task of rebuilding Coventry: "[London] was the great magnet, but owing to the misapplication of democratic principles it became a mass of barbarity in which too many sought to better themselves at the expense of others. . . . Meanwhile, looking on impotently was a great body of highly trained architects and planners visualizing rational and ordered plans...
When the American Express Co. sold off its motorized wheel chairs after the New York World's Fair, Fair President Harvey Gibson bought three to scoot around his estate...
...George Gibson introduced the new member to the 32 members of T. U. C.'s General Council with wisecracks. Example: "This is Tom O'Brien, an Irishman masquerading as a Welshman." When the Queen's ear caught the accent of Miner Will Lawther she chimed in: "What part of the north do you come from...
...Chairman Gibson then handed the King the Trades Union Council's gold membership medal. "Can I now attend any T. U. C. meeting in the country?" asked the King...
...said George Gibson...