Word: martinus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the hit came. What had been a nightclub became a nightmare: heaps of wreckage crushing the heaps of dead and maimed, a shambles of silver slippers, broken magnums, torn sheet music, dented saxophones, smashed discs. One of the dead was Martinus Poulsen, who before the war owned a chain of night spots worth more than ?250.000. But some of the carefree young survived. They dragged themselves out. They went with their bruises and grime to a West End hotel. They washed up. They went to the ballroom and ordered food and drinks. They asked the bandleader for a number...