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Such, for this typical middle-class English family, was the morning after the air raid. The town was Southampton, the story fictitious. But Ordeal makes the air raid and the days that follow as natural as death. The raid had come about midnight-without warning, without sound of planes. The Corbett house was not hit. Only the windows were missing, letting a cold March rain sough in over the rugs and furniture. "What's it all about, anyway?" asked Corbett. "I dunno," said Neighbor Littlejohn...
...Modern World." Anthony Eden comes now to the U. S. to address the annual dinner in Manhattan at the Hotel WaldorfAstoria of the National Association of Manufacturers. He will speak on Democracy and the Modern World. Before the Edens sailed from Southampton last week, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax declared to the House of Lords: "Mr. Eden ... is going to the United States not as a Cabinet Minister, but with the fullest assent and approbation of the British Government. I have no doubt but that his visit will be extremely valuable in establishing contacts." Seven-year-old Son Nicholas, before solemnly...
...Long Island, the hurricane which devastated Fire Island and the continuing strip of seabeach that runs as far east as Southampton (TIME, Oct. 3) spelled Opportunity as well as Catastrophe. He was husky, dark-haired, immensely energetic Robert Moses...
...Construct a 43-mile bulkhead motor highway, part parkway, part boulevard well above high-tide line the length of the sandspit from Fire Island State Park to Southampton...
...rich colony at Newport suffered worse than their friends at Southampton. Bailey's Beach. Ocean Drive and the Clambake Club were demolished. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's sculpture studio was torn off its cliff. Mrs. Jock Whitney's aunt, Mrs. John C. Norris and her son John C. Jr., were drowned in their car as they tried to motor from Narragansett Pier. In a house at Misquamicut, ten women holding a church social were drowned...