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...retired head of the oldtime Ringling-featured acrobatic family, the Flying Nelsons; after an automobile accident; in Detroit. Few circus acrobatic families traced as authentic a tradition as the Flying Nelsons. Arthur Nelson's English great-grandfather, Robert, turned professional handsprings at news of the victory of Waterloo...
Eton College (prep school), on whose playing fields the Battle of Waterloo was said (by the Duke of Wellington) to have been won, was bombed last month. When Etonians explored the ruins, they made a tingling discovery: the famed old "birching block," over which headmasters had birched (i.e., flogged) boys' bottoms for generations, was missing. Although many an Etonian was disposed to let well enough alone, antiquarians searched diligently, eventually found the birching block's remains in a bomb crater. Last week they reverently picked up the pieces, installed them in the Eton Museum...
Democrats of Cedar Falls, Iowa were sorely perplexed. Through a mixup, their printed instructions on how to use the newly-installed voting machines read simply: "Pull the Republican lever." Republicans in one Waterloo, Iowa precinct were equally baffled. Election judges the night before had inadvertently left a sign hanging on the Republican county ticket lever: "Do not touch...
...high altar smashed by falling masonry, but the lead rafters held up the roof), Memorial Hall of the University of London (10,000 books destroyed, including German and Jewish collections), Dudley House (depot for U. S. gifts, where 1,000 lb. of Red Cross wool was buried under rubble), Waterloo Station, Battersea Park (near a main powerhouse). Wellington College in Berkshire was hit, its headmaster killed. The Archbishop of Canterbury revealed that Lambeth Palace, his London residence, had been demolished several days prior, same day Westminster Abbey and the House of Lords were hit. Day after this announcement, Nazi bombs...
...Possible forerunners of a torrent of anti-Nazi films are three recent motion pictures: 1. The Mortal Storm; The Man I Married; Pastor Hall. 2. Waterloo Bridge; Fight for Life; Air Death. 3. Foreign Correspondent; To the Victor; Our Town. 4. Grey Legions ; Sky Hawks ; They Drive by Night. 5. After Bismarck; The Secret Weapon...