Word: tussaud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must to all men, death came in England last week to John Theodore Tussaud (pronounced Tuss-so'), 86, great grandson and successor to Madame Marie Tussaud, who brought the famed Tussaud waxworks from Paris to England...
...London blitz damaged but did not destroy the Tussaud museum on Marylebone Road. In the ruinous days of September 1940, a bomb blasted two of the museum's rooms into reportedly picturesque and possibly symbolic confusion: Hitler lurched on his beam-ends, his head chipped to its core. Göring's resplendent tunic was ripped to shreds and his countless medals strewn on the floor. Goebbels lay on his back, staring at nothing. But firm and unshaken, the blue eyes of Winston Churchill gazed blinkless at the scene...
Into Mme. Tussaud's, famed London waxworks, went the parents of the late Air Ace Paddy Finucane to look at their son's image, found it had "not quite caught the look," spoke to the management, which promptly decided a ?100 remodeling job was in order...
...figures ready to join the waxen ranks of the great in Mme. Tussaud's in London, world's most famed waxworks: General Douglas MacArthur, Sir Stafford Cripps, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...ones who can show the young ones what to do." Grimy workers coming off duty shook hands with their King. "I hope you don't mind my dirty hands," said one. His Majesty didn't. In Marylebone they stopped to see the wreck of Mme. Tussaud's waxworks...