Word: oxley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit moves him, his majesty throws largess in the form of coconuts; Louis has stocked more than 2,000 of them. Waiting for him on a reviewing stand in front of the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home stands the Zulus' Queen (this year, attractive, brown-skinned Bernice Oxley, ticket taker at the Ace Theater). In a room where the caskets have been pushed back to the wall, she receives her lord's champagne toast. After the parade the long night of jazz-filled, carnival pandemonium begins...
...loss of 100 submariners was the British Navy's heaviest in one engagement since Deutschland sank Rawalpindi (259 lives). The loss of three submarines (plus the 1,354-ton Oxley sunk by accident last autumn) left her with 65 of the 69 she had when war began. Added to France's 78, this leaves the Allies well ahead of Germany's pre-war total of 65 U-boats...