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Some Londoners tried to keep cool by lying, sweaty and scarlet, on the shores of Hyde Park's Serpentine. Others sped for the seashore, where thousands slept on the beaches. Steve Raynor, a waiter from tropical Jamaica, changed his coat three times and gave up. "It's too hot in England," he said...
...Reckoning. Within a couple of hours of the blast, hundreds of U.S. soldiers sped over the rickety Rhine bridge from Mannheim in the U.S. zone to bring help. They came with bulldozers to cut a path through the debris, with giant cranes to lift twisted girders off the dead and dying, with gas masks which proved invaluable when chemical fumes threw back rescue workers. As the fires raged on into the night, these G.I.s, led by quiet little Lieut. Colonel Walter F. Partin of Nashville, Tenn., worked without pause, performing a thousand acts of heroism in the smoke & flames. Bulldozing...
...Even less audibly, a rumor machine began to grind. Rumor is an ancient contrivance of political conventions, but it had seldom been used more efficiently. Whispering stories of rebellions in opposition camps cropped up, stories of desertions, stories of growing Dewey strength. Newsmen, picking each other's brains, sped the rumors along. Philadelphia hotel lobbies, rooms and bars were suddenly filled with startling and unverified stories...
...been proud of the purity of their tongue; they bristle when English-speaking visitors call it a patois. Once.it seemed that improved communications (newspapers, the radio and movies) would flatten out regional differences brought by the settlers from Normandy and Brittany, Aunis and He de France. Instead, better communications sped corruption of the language, mainly by "barbarous" Anglicisms...
...Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, drove to the airport in his bullet-proof Daimler. He flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father's sword he has girded on, and his wild harp slung behind...