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Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car. When His Royal Highness jumped out, grinning and ruefully rubbing his ears, which still rang with the concussion, women gathered round the Duke. A frightened little girl came up and put her hand in his. He held it while he chatted with the people. "It's grand to see you here," said they. "How's your wife and youngsters?" "Fine, thanks!" said the Duke...
...afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...
...window in his top-floor hotel room while a squadron of German bombers droned overhead. He was talking with two naval officers and his assistant, Australian Stanley Johnstone, when there was an explosion. The whole side of the hotel collapsed. Down through four floors dropped Newsman Murchie in a shower of timbers, bricks, soot, debris. He climbed out of the wreckage with his assistant. They dug the hotel's pretty receptionist from under a pile of timbers, extricated one naval officer and put him in an ambulance. (The other officer was dead.) In a hospital where he was taken...
...plate division of independent McKeesport Tin Plate Corp. Price: around $3,000,000, which included good will, a euphemism doubtless meaning that J. & L. will probably get the lion's share of tin-plate orders from McKees-port's can factories. Meanwhile, Wall Street anticipated a shower of back-dividend payments on J. & L. preferred, pushed it up from its May Blitzkrieg...
...complaints when Baiter sounds soft. Sample of the stuff Ivey likes to hear: "How does horse racing get away with it? ... A horse comes in . . . among the also-rans in one race and in the very next he finishes so far ahead that he's through taking his shower before the place pony can even stagger home. Or vice versa. At least vice...