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...Godolphin School in Hammersmith, Irish Poet W. B. Yeats was known among his English classmates as "mad Yeats." The school, he wrote, "was an obscene bullying place, where a big boy would hit a small boy in the wind to see him double up, and where certain boys, too young for any emotion of sex, would sing the dirty songs of the streets...
...Election night when it is discovered that the 48 states are deadlocked in a sort of Hayes-Tilden stalemate. It is the 49th State of the Union which holds the decisive balance. How feverish the crowds in Times Square grow as the slow returns pour in! "Seven districts in Hammersmith give Wallace a plurality of 54," with James A. Garfield and Aaron Burr trailing badly. Then the grand finale in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's lions magically changed to eagles at the touch of Henry's wand, and all the fountains playing pure Coca-Cola. What a revenge...
Cruising was written by stout, spinsterish Eily Beadel (who calls herself "officially 48"), a retired music-hall accordionist, and her chum, greying, triple-chinned Nellie ("Tolly") Tollerton, a onetime actress of the silent films. Eily lives with her twelve-year-old cat, "Spot," in Hammersmith, and Tolly Tollerton lives with her husband, who is a Swedish foot juggler...
Without much hope of success, defense counsel said they would appeal to a higher court, and, if necessary, to the House of Lords. William Joyce was whisked away to await the noose at the famous Hammersmith prison, Wormwood Scrubs...
Said Eric Severeid from Hammersmith's: "There are 1,500 people in this place at the moment; it's 15 minutes before mid night and that's the wartime closing hour for Saturday night. There was an air raid alarm, as you know, 15 minutes ago. The orchestra leader simply announced they'd go on playing as the crowd wished to stay and I don't expect more than half a dozen people have left." From Hammersmith's the program jumped to Piccadilly Circus, where Vincent Sheean spoke briefly of the silent streets. Following...