Word: shelterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belligerent nation," declared Willis, "it will be physically possible for an enemy to bomb out coast. Naturally the army air corps has that eventuality in mind. France was bombed. After looking at the results it was easy to see that cellars of ordinary masonry buildings are traps. One such shelter in Beauvals had 16 people in it. The building fell and all were killed...
...bombs fell on a golf course, killing 75 unnamed rabbits. There were 25 persons in an Anderson shelter only a few feet from the golf course and the rabbits, and they weren't even scratched. A parrot, blasted from his cage, was seen walking down the street muttering to himself, quietly, of course, so as not to give any information to anybody...
...forces reoccupied Gallabat and took Italian prisoners near Kassala on the eastern Sudan front-when they struck by air at Naples, Brindisi, Durazzo and Valona from new air footholds in Crete (see p. 23), causing consternation in Rome and loud stories about the Pope's new air-raid shelter...
Mild-looking, baldish Georges Rouault, who was born in a bomb shelter during the Paris Commune, is now 69, is presumably living and working in occupied France, perhaps in Paris, where he holds a sinecure as director of a museum full of fairy-tale paintings by his teacher, Academician Gustave Moreau. Today a good Rouault costs about $3,500. For the Institute's Rouault show, Director Plaut was unable to import any paintings from Europe, or even to borrow one from the late exhibition at the New York World's Fair. He collected his show from...
...meetings with Frontiersman Daniel Boone, Naturalist-Bird Painter Alexander Wilson, eccentric Naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz. There are lively descriptions of coon, possum, bear and cougar hunts, bird biographies, racy reporting of the frontier's human fauna. Most exciting piece is The Prairie. One night Audubon asked shelter at a cabin where he found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes Audubon: "Judge of my astonishment, reader, when...