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...morning of May 25 a Partisan guard woke the American photographer, Fowler, the British photographer, Slade, the British correspondent, Talbot, and me by shouting through the windows of our two houses: "Avioni-airplanes!" Talbot and I, sharing the same room, jumped into our clothes, ran out, took a look at the skies and made for the slit trench on a bare mound some 100 yards away. No sooner had the four of us reached the shelter than bombs from 15 planes began exploding around us. Sizzling bomb fragments whizzed into the trench beside my right shoulder. About 30 more large...
...ducked and crawled and at one point had to drop the stretcher and lie flat. But a German paratrooper behind us, carefully taking cover, prodded us on with his submachine gun. We reached the cemetery unscathed. Here, at about n, I was separated from Talbot, Fowler and Slade. I did not see them again and have not heard what became of them...
...Brett. The Honorable Dorothy Brett was born in London (1891), daughter of Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher, friend and adviser of Britain's shrewd, sporty King Edward VII. Dorothy studied art at London's Slade School. In her art-student days she met Novelist D. H. Lawrence, was so impressed by him that she followed him to Taos. After Lawrence's death, in 1933. Dorothy Brett wrote Lawrence and Brett, a minor literary sensation...
Malcome H. Holmes '28, who is directing the band this year and Guy V. Slade 32, drillmaster of the band who devised many famous original drills while working with Leroy Anderson, report that the band is shaping up well except for a shortage in the percussion section...
With Gandhi went Mme. Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. Gandhi, older (73), tinier (barely four feet tall) and far frailer than her scrawny spouse who is still tough as nails despite the fiction that he is sickly, was allowed to remain in the Birla home. But that evening, she, too, was arrested when she tried to make a speech before 30,000 persons in a big Bombay park. The meeting was broken up, but not before other speakers read the last...