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...boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters engaged them. Two of their bombs hit close to Iron Duke, damaging but not sinking her. British fighting planes and anti-aircraft fire drove off these raiders, downing five. Britain saw that in this war Germany is not going to repeat the omission that so puzzled Admiral...
...interested in seeing the ballet and theatre mask exhibitions now being shown in the Theater Collection on the top floor of Widener. The Theatre Masks have been loaned by the New England Repertory Theatre Company, having been used in the recent Boston Production of O'Neil's, "The Groat God Brown...
...toast of every London pub last week was a skinny, buck-toothed 22-year-old lad from Pudsey named Leonard Hutton. With a cricket bat Pudsey's boy had tickled sporting Britain into a grin that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groat...
...complaining child, and as he looks back, there is a melancholy charm, about his childhood that is attractive. And what he seems to have suffered from neglect, he gained in independence and self-sufficiency. Then there were always the summer holidays at Barmouth, at John o'Groat's, or on the island of Jersey, where he climbed rocks and swam with such of his father's students as "Q" Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. On one occasion, at Cadgwith it was, young Grant surprised Madame Modjeska and Forbes-Robertson deuning the "ample bathing dresses of the time" under enormous towels...
...card was post-marked "The Dallas," Oregon, and came from a clipping bureau called Anderson and Groat...