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...swank Mayfair shops, "National Topcoat Week" followed "National Fur Week" and autumn buying continued brisk. Enough timid shoppers stay at home to have doubled the business of London mail-order firms since break of World War II, but a daily tide of some 5,000 shoppers and window-gazers flowed down Oxford Street last week. Most ignored air-raid alarms until German bombers were actually overhead and they dawdled and browsed over displays of goods ticketed "For Christmas," in no hurry to pick out presents. Outside famed Peter Robinson's, housewives queued up in a long line...
...been sold in London alone and "Blitzbachelors" (husbands who have sent their wives to the country for safety) are doffing British decorum to sleep nightly in the narrow family shelters on cots beside the cots of their housemaids. A bomb last week ripped the side wall off a Mayfair mansion of stately appearance, revealed it to have been one of London's most sumptuously equipped bagnios. The walls were covered with erotic frescos rivaling those of Pompeii, and a giggling crowd soon gathered on the sidewalk to ogle the pictures while gruff, prim London bobbies kept growling...
...larder to give to fishermen as they left at dawn to catch the early tide. One day the family doctor showed him a pickled brain, and young Wilfred, "thrilled," decided to become a physician. After he graduated from the University of London, he set up an office in fashionable Mayfair, but he longed for the sea. So in June 1892 he set sail with a British hospital ship to spend a summer treating the natives of Labrador...
That Prince Friedrich of Prussia should lie snug in a household so close to the British Royal Family was not to be endured in wartime, more especially since the Duke had for years spoken highly in Mayfair drawing rooms of what a good job Hitler was doing in Germany. So three weeks ago Prince Friedrich was moved to an ordinary internment camp. Last week London learned that the King had been graciously pleased to discharge the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensbury from his sinecure on May 10 last and appoint the Duke of Hamilton & Brandon to be Lord Steward...
...insurance broker of Lloyds who took up motor racing as a hobby and became Britain's popular "Speed King" is ruddy and rambunctious Sir Malcolm Campbell. Last week high-speed Sir Malcolm's divorce suit against Lady Campbell set a new low in Mayfair muckraking...