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Londoners could not quite bring themselves to think of the new raids as a blessing, but taxi drivers, charwomen and red-tabbed brass hats of the War Office mused in much the same words: "Maybe we were getting careless. These raids are getting us good and mad just in time for the Second Front...
Slow Burn. In London, a taxi-driver got a divorce after testifying that he had come home and found his wife with another...
...plane from Berlin arrived-an American-made DC-3, with "Sweden-Schweden" painted in huge letters on both sides. A dozen grave-faced Germans emerged. Out-prioritied, I resigned myself to the night train. While waiting for a taxi I stood around and watched the Germans. Their clothes looked unpressed and faded but still good. Their faces were grim. I particularly noticed one grey gentleman. He had on a fine, fur-collared coat and new overshoes, a prewar and rather frowzy hat. He walked and spoke with dignity and authority, but his face looked haggard...
...German, a uniformed Danish pilot and I shared the 20-minute taxi ride from the airport to town. After a minute or two in the taxi, the German turned to me and said: "Sprechen Sie Deutsch...
...weeks later, in Halifax, a taxi driver got $2,000 for his son's education, a hotel clerk got $1,000 for no reason at all, a telephone operator $500. Back on another visit to the Toronto hospital, McLean ran through $6,000 in short order, left happy as a lark with 13? in his jeans...