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...entire postal system was going to perdition. There were only three deliveries a day in these straitened times. Why, before the war, there had been five. One oldtimer recalled that Edward FitzGerald, the translator of The Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam, regularly wrote to London friends from his home near Lowestoft, 116 miles away, and counted on his letters being delivered before evening the same day. They had decent railroad service too in those days...
...heroism one Werner Borner, radio operator aboard a crippled German Dornier 17 bomber. Borner's distinction: he tried to kill Townsend-and nearly succeeded. Flying a Hurricane. Townsend closed with the Dornier as the Germans, elated after a successful attack on shipping in the harbor at Lowestoft, were flying back across the North Sea derisively singing Goodbye, Johnny. Townsend wounded two of the four crew members. Talking with Townsend after the war, Borner, the only man left besides the pilot, recalled that "with a last effort I shot at the Hurricane, which was so close I could...
...dusk-to-dawn curfew. Last week schools were shut down when students tried to demonstrate, and newspapers were forbidden to "carry news that might incite people." British troops patrolled the streets, exchanging occasional fire with snipers on the rooftops. For good measure, the carrier Eagle and the frigate Lowestoft steamed meaningfully into the Gulf of Aden...
Lady in a Cage. A power failure. In an elegant old mansion a self-service elevator stops suddenly at an awkward level between floors. In it, mildly startled, stands a middle-aged woman with a book of poems in one hand and a Lowestoft jar in the other. "Don't worry," she reassures herself. "This can't last more than a few minutes." But it does. It lasts all day, a day of wrath that changes a cultured woman into a caged beast and adds Olivia de Havilland, now 47, to the list of cinemactresses (Bette Davis, Joan...
...this full-dress biography, the late French Critic Gérard Jean-Aubry, editor of Conrad's letters, has taken soundings along the well-charted course of the Conrad legend. The legend is well known? the young Polish exile who began to learn English from Lowestoft sailors at 21, became a ship's master at 29, voyaged to the Caribbean and the China Seas, and who, at 36, took to the shore and, despite poverty, neglect and illness, made himself a master novelist. It is all true. Jean- Aubry, who spent 20 years writing this book, fills in the blank spaces...