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...taproom of Ye Old Queen Anne's Castle Inn, one of several "oldest hostelries" in the county, Landlord Alfred Sykes drew pint after pint for inquisitive reporters from London, told them of awesome doings. "Last night the church clock turned two hours slow, which never happened before. . . . Then there was old Chipping's rabbits. One of them-ain't this witchcraft?-he found setting on eggs in his chicken coop. . . . And Mrs. Warren's books. There's a respectable widow woman for you, and a friend o' mine. All her books changed jackets...
...fancy look of some hotels that the Army has taken over for its redistribution centers makes G.I. guests gasp. After a fortnight of top-priced splendor ($30 a day for two) at Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
Grove Park Inn is one of 48 resort hotels-at Asheville, Miami, Lake Placid, Santa Barbara, etc.-now used as redistribution centers for soldiers returning from battle. Last week the Army got started on two more centers. For Negro troops, it took over the Hotel Pershing on the border of Chicago's Negro district, got ready to move into the Hotel Theresa in Harlem...
Only one building had not been blown apart-the small inn. In its basement were big casks of wine and rows of bottles. There each night went one U.S. outpost patrol. Thither also (at a different hour) went one German patrol. The patrols never met. They spied on, but never surprised each other. It was too good a thing to be ruined...
Last week the unofficial armistice was ended, the playhouse wrecked. Major Asa Gardiner, suspicious because his G.I.s had" not griped over night patrol duty, sent a more trusted, less thirsty patrol under secret orders to the inn. Its men opened the casks, smashed the bottles, let the good wine run out on the earthen floor...