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Signals and Scissors. Whistling, humming, singing and talking were forbidden. Once when the Bishop tried breaking the no-talking rule, as everyone did, he got "a good wigging from the head warden." Nevertheless he managed to send out word that he would say daily Morning and Evening Prayers, invited his neighbors to join him silently at those hours. He tapped signals on the walls to announce the opening and closing of services. On Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water...
...such messages did tall, spectacled, shabby Ernest Frederick Lehmitz, 57, zealous air-raid warden, waiter, and operator of a sailors' boardinghouse, reveal U.S. ship movements to Nazi Intelligence. Spy Lehmitz settled in the U.S. in 1913, worked in the German Consulate in New York during World War I, was classed as a "dangerous alien" but not interned. Naturalized (1924), he went to Germany in 1938, was trained in a Nazi spy school, returned to the U.S. March 27, 1941 ready to work...
...years Duffy's has acquired about 7,000,000 steady listeners. Prisoners at San Quentin (their warden's name is Duffy) like the show so much that they call their jail Duffy's Tavern. The program contains some of radio's oddest characters. Duffy, proprietor of a Third Avenue saloon where "the elite meet to eat," never shows up, is merely a stubborn Irish character on the telephone. Another off-stage character is a man with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book...
...workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
...distinguished literary quarterly in the language, he was tired. Today he is 1) a director of Faber & Faber, publishers; 2) advisory editor of The Christian Newsletter; 3) commentator in the New English Weekly (Eliot's latest contribution is an essay, Notes Towards a Definition of Culture); 4) church warden of Anglo-Catholic St. Stephen's, in London's respectable Kensington; 5) British Council lecturer; 6) fire watcher in quiet Bloomsbury...