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Donald Watson Blackett, Newtonville; Richard William Kislik, New York City; John Hood Ryther, Watertown; Jules Martin Weiss, Kew Gardens, N. Y.; George Austin Willenbrink, Louisville...
Endurance. The weather was as somber as the darkest economic forecasts. This week the sun came out brightly for a few hours-for the first time in 22 days. In the 66 years London's Kew Observatory had been keeping tabs, there had never been such a long sunless period. Snow, icy gales and subfreezing temperatures were also out for endurance records. All week long there was frost, without a break. Reported the weatherman: "It's very rare to have continuous frost for more than three days; this sort of thing doesn't happen more than half...
...London Times, which meticulously records the first cuckoos in Hyde Park and the first primroses in Kew, chronicled another notable event: the first real ice cream since the war began. Hitherto the Government permitted Britons to trifle with limited quantities of an ersatz product made with powdered milk. Last week's relaxation of all bans moved the Times to moralize magnificently...
...teacher. . . . When one little boy was . . . asked what [street lights] were for, he merely shrugged his shoulders in a puzzled manner. . . . Nearly all of them thought that the barrage balloons over London had always been there. . . . One boy had recently seen a lemon in a hothouse in Kew Gardens and a little girl vaguely remembered having had a grapefruit many years ago. . . . Only one or two could remember [buying] candies without having to give up coupons...
...Miss Eleanor Catherine Judd of Kew Gardens, N.Y. wrote that she was of German descent, but "to show my contempt for the present German regime" she is teaching English to German refugees. She added: "My only other contribution to victory lies in the fact that I have been allowed to give 14 blood donations to the plasma bank, and am about to give my 15th. I am in splendid health, and only wish the Red' Cross would permit me to donate more often. It just so happens that I am blind, though I do not let it bother...