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The Black Death abated. But in 1661 it again began to sweep in from the Levant. In 1664 Diarist Samuel Pepys "heard little noise day or night but tolling of bells"; some 69,000 Londoners died. Once more the plague retreated, nation by nation, year by year, into Asia.
Thus jauntily 59-year-old F. P. A. concluded his 38th year of daily columning. He still had something better than a tidy poker allowance from Information Please ($900 a week), but chances appeared slim that he would ever again match his Conning Tower heyday on the old New York...
>"When you open Pepys you get one leg on the flypaper at once and it is hard to get away."
This pleasant vision was described by John Aubrey, a country gentleman, a sort of bush-league Pepys or Plutarch, of 17th-Century England.
Then on another Sunday foreign youths in sleek black bombers swept over central London and dumped 10,000 incendiary bombs in a coldly calculated Nazi attempt at mass arson. Any modern Samuel Pepys picking his way through the twisted streets of the City last week could have described scenes matching...