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...mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing for the Dunkirk evacuation 20 years ago, says he finished off a bawtla whisky on the way 'ome. "The wife said, 'Are you tired or drunk?' I said, 'Both...
...thousands to 'elp bring back the lads off the beaches. Sorry day for Blighty, all right. Only one boat makes it across without bein' blown up, and when she gets there, this 'ere corporal and 'is five men 'itch a ride 'ome off 'er without hardly any of the other 100,000 poor bleeders on the beach even stirrin' off their arsenal...
...widowed tradesman, a better-grade booterer whose three daughters have reached the physical age for marriage. Father, however, has reached the mental age where he cannot let them go, especially when a substantial marriage portion goes with each one. The old terror stalks from his "rightful 'ome comforts" to his "reasonable refreshment" at the pub, bragging in one place about his eminence in the other, while his daughters run the business for him and see their suitors...
...However," adds the Board of Control in their joint statement, "much remains to be done if our universities are to preserve their academic freedom and at the same time meet the demands that are already upon them and that will increase steadily in the years to ome...
...solace to most of London's perspiring millions. "I can't eat in the day and I wriggle about with one sheet all night," moaned a a little suburban housewife. "Cahn't work. Cahn't sleep. And your margarine melts before you get it 'ome from the grocer's," groaned a Cockney lady in the Underground...