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Britons felt most keenly the destruction of the Guildhall, medieval town hall of London where for six centuries the great and illustrious have been honored with pageantry and much of the history of the British Empire has been made. Within the charred shell of its Gothic walls black-faced workmen pried under massive oaken beams searching for the familiar old figures of Gog and Magog, 14½-foot wooden grotesques who guarded the Guildhall...
Soldiers were not admitted into Iceland homes. Reykjavik, which was supposed to boast that law & order were natural to it, called up an unprecedented police force of 65 men. Icelandic workmen charged the invaders high wages...
...clatter of hammers and the fresh smell of unpainted Virginia pine filled the White House grounds last week. Beyond the north lawn and across broad Pennsylvania Avenue, along Lafayette Park, workmen were knocking together grandstands. There on Jan. 20 the President and as many U. S. citizens as can be accommodated will watch the inaugural parade of Term III: a two-hour procession of the nation's armed forces, including a mechanized unit from Fort Knox...
...blown up, went whirling down the coast to batter California. There rain fell in whale-sized tubfuls: San Diego, which normally gets only three inches in the entire last half of the year, got more than that in a single day last week. At Salinas Airport, workmen anchored an iron hangar to four ten-ton ice trucks to keep it from blowing away. At a beach near San Francisco, waves slammed 100 feet beyond high water mark, knocked three houses off their underpinnings. Ten Coastguardsmen who set out to aid a damaged lumber schooner off Fort Bragg soon needed help...
Typhoid. Fortnight ago, workmen accidentally let the dirty Genesee River water flow into Rochester's water mains (TIME, Dec. 23). Since the typhoid bacillus may take as long as 42 days to incubate, Rochesterians last week still had days of suspense ahead of them. Many were cheered when a former superintendent of waterworks made the startling confession that the same mistake had been made several times before, "without too much publicity...