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...when New Year's came. Down in the locker room when we went off shift everyone said 'Happy New Year.' I didn't go out and celebrate. I went home and went to bed. These days I usually sleep from about two o'clock till noon...
...young men rapped sharply at the shiny knockers of old Colonial doors. Sleepy householders were told: "Be at Christ Church for a special service at 11 a.m. There will be two distinguished guests. Don't talk till afterward...
Died. Louis Michel Eilshemius, 77, self-styled Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A painter for some 50 years, he turned out more than 5,000 canvases, failed to attract either fame or buyers till he was a broken old man. He was then embraced as a cult, made the Metropolitan Museum, sold paintings at four-figure prices. A crippled, wandering-minded recluse, he observed: "It's too late to enjoy my fame." He died in a psychopathic ward...
...John Laurie, Lord Mayor of London, stumbled out of his car in a blackout, fell, broke his wrist. He put off the trip to the hospital till he had done his job: posting outside Mansion House official notice of a royal birth...
...Leader Sammy Kaye launched Remember Pearl Harbor. Mills Music. Inc. got out the following: WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR Brightest jewel of the blue southern sea, Our lips will be saying 'Pearl Harbor On each bead of our Rosary; The angels will smile on Pearl Harbor Till the last leaf will fall from the tree, WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR Our Harbor of memory...