Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German mass air attacks, as distinct from sporadic raids, showed a definite pattern. First they went after the naval bases and coastal air defenses-Portland, Plymouth, Dover, Southampton. Next they pressed inland looking for R. A. F. bases and aircraft factories. On Aug. 15, eleven bombers penetrated fighter and anti-aircraft defenses and reached Croydon, Britain's greatest airport, ten miles from London's heart. The British said all the raiders were destroyed, but so were hangars and shops at Croydon and many a neighboring house. On Aug. 16 they stepped up their pace to 2,500 planes...
...Germans, echoing a story in the New York Daily News, claimed they had effectively "closed" the port of London, had stopped virtually all traffic in & out of Hull, Newcastle, Southampton. Great Britain replied that none of these ports was closed except momentarily, to sweep up mines. Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross admitted, however, that traffic at any port might be dislocated at any time by "war conditions," for which...
...Oklahoma's solemn Don McNeill, U. S. Intercollegiate champion: the Meadow Club tennis tournament, major tuneup for the National Singles championship; defeating (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) California's frivolous Frank Kovacs, who had drubbed U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the semifinals; at Southampton, L. I. After the conventional handshake, Clown Kovacs got McNeill to join him in a characteristically irreverent Kovacs pose...
...Southampton one night last week steamed the 6,127-ton French liner Meknès. She flew the tricolor and had it painted large upon her sides, for she was carrying back to France 1,300 French naval officers & men who had decided not to fight further with Britain against Germany...
Married. Anne McDonnell, 22, second daughter of James Francis McDonnell, granddaughter of the late Inventor and Utilitycoon Thomas Edward Murray; and Henry Ford II, 22, eldest son of Edsel Bryant Ford, grandson and namesake of Motor Manufacturer Henry Ford; in Southampton, L. I. Born a Protestant, the groom was tutored in the Catholic faith and married by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Fulton John Sheen, who at the conclusion of the ceremony announced: "Pope Pius XII sends his apostolic blessing to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II." Among the 600 guests: the Harvey Firestone Jr.'s, William S. Knudsens, John...