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When he was landed at Norfolk, Va. in January 1944, Reinhold Pabel, prisoner of war, was a tight-jawed, scarred little bantam with a calculating eye. But he was a pleasant and contemplative sort of fellow too. He had studied for the priesthood as a youth at the University of Münster, spoke English and Russian, was the author of a German book entitled Athos, the Holy Mountain. He gradually concluded that he wanted to live...
Leming was one of the rescuers standing by at Hunstanton, Norfolk, when the seawall broke, isolating 35 bungalows. An Air Force Weasel set out to rescue the cottagers and was swamped. A motor-launch crew tried three times to breast the gale and was blown back. Without a word to anyone, Reis Leming, clad in a rubber "exposure suit," waded into the icy waters, pushing a rubber raft ahead of him. Often the water swirled above his head, but "I just hung on until I could get a foothold again," he said...
Across the Channel, from the Orkneys south to Dover, the low-lying British coast lay beaten and flooded. Here & there a lonely church spire rose above scenes of desolation. Dozens of bodies and thousands of head of livestock floated dead on the floodwaters. Norfolk, the hardest hit, was first to report high casualties-17 bodies found floating on the flood waters at Felixstowe, scores of other deaths-including at least nine U.S. servicemen and their kin from the East Anglian bomber base in Hunstanton. On the west of Britain, the storm took 128 in one blow when it swamped...
According to the will field last Thursday in the Norfolk Probate Court, well over half of Miss Bryant's estate was left to the two institutions...
...School Students, Greville E. Janner and Anthony J.L. Lloyd, are both graduates of Cambridge University, England, and in the debate represented Cambridge, not Harvard. Their loss represented Norfolk's second straight Victory over English competition, the prisoners having out-talked a team of Oxford men last year...