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Immobilized: the powerful old 22,146-ton aircraft carrier Beam; the 5,886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin; the 6,496-ton cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, at Guadeloupe; some small auxiliary craft. Most important, U.S. patrol vessels which have had to stand vigil will be freed for tasks elsewhere...
...experts are inclined to accept Peter Masefield's figures, except those for France and Germany. The British, they say, exaggerate Hitler's air power in France, consequently overestimate the number of Nazi planes keeping vigil against Britain. U.S. information is that the bulk of Germany's western air fleet is still within the Reich, a position whence it could be hurled quickly against Russia, Britain or to the south, as occasion arises...
...other is his antidote for getting over a bad spot in a picture. He just strides up & down interminably while everyone waits. The late Carole Lombard stood it as long as she could during the filming of Vigil in the Night, finally phoned her agent from her bed at 5 o'clock one morning: "I just thought what that pacing and thoughtful look of Stevens' mean." "What?" asked the sleepy agent. "Not a goddam thing," said she, and went back to sleep...
...Manhattan firm (Defense Blackout & Camouflage Co., Inc.) rushed into print, advertising a "blackout consultant service." > In Scarsdale, N.Y. mothers took up their vigil in parked cars outside the Scarsdale High School, to carry their children home if bombers appeared...
There was no formal meeting of the War Cabinet. But all night long Prime Minister Churchill, Ambassador Winant and members of the Cabinet kept informal vigil at No. 10, weighing and discussing each fragment of news as it came in. Again Winston Churchill used the telephone, this time to call Franklin Roosevelt in Washington. They discussed a synchronized declaration of war on Japan...