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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1947 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THIRTEEN London Letter By STUART UNDERHILL Canadian Press Staff Viriter London, Aug. 237.-- (CP)--Oceans of paint and mountains of brick distributed here and there over vast, battered London at last are g to make themselves no- Mostly they only pock the sur- face of the crumbling city with each new storefront or renovated house attracting attention to the shabbiness of its neighbors. But people who have succeeded in freshening up or repairing their buildings after years of waiting are triumphantly happy. » Buried by Plaster "For example, there is Frank Tow- + ers, who, with his aged but spry mother and a middle-aged sister, runs a vegetable store in North London. Thirty-one months ago, on' a chill morning, the three of them tumbled from their beds above their store and were buried in falling plaster by an explosion which rock- ed the neigtborhood. Daylight showed that a bomb had landed at an intersection 150 yards | away, wiping out a police station, a restaurant, two stores and a couple 'ot houses. Several other buildings, besides the Towers' home, | were made uninhabitable. Frank managed to find a store a short distance away where he car- ried on business but always hank- ered to get to the old stand. The store was one of several in the block and gradually repair workers crept toward it. There were only a few men on the job and, even to Frank's resign- ed eye, they seemed to take their time, A basket of bricks was haul- ed up, then there was a pause for a pipe. A row of bricks was laid, then time out for tea. But at last the structure was whole again. And after a few more months fixtures were installed and paint slapped on the interior. All that was needed then was plate glass for the window. After a week's more delay, it arrived and was installed while Frank hopped excitedly on the sidewalk. | Now Frank, his mother and sis- | KARN'S DRUG STORE PHONE 78 - 79 Next to Post Office (The Family Drug Store) I [[w. L. Borrowdale "The Oil Burner Man" We Recommend and Install the "REX IL" Automatic Oil Burner Immediate Installation. FUEL OIL FOR NEW CUSTOMERS PHONE 1092 Res. 584J | ter bustle about the store in self- important happiness. He still finds lots to grouse about but at least he can do it in comfort. Some Stores Still Waiting Mrs, Morris, at the bakery two doors along, has a new window, too, after more than 30 months her bread in semi-gloom behind boards nailed up when the bomb fell. At the grocery store, also, the girls are used to working in day- light again; for a while they felt like goldfish. Some stores are still waiting how- ever. Dark wallboard, filled in to replace bomb-shatered glass in a tobacconist's store, now is beginning to peel. A shoe repair shop is in similar plight. The latter can wait a while long- 2 od Dick, the eobiler, bad to | leave oor open & crack durin, last winter's ih gilt and fuel ji sis in order to get a bit of light at his work, He died of pneumonia last April and his widow, while still living at the back of the build. ng, doesn't need the shop. Thin Togs Need Fastidious Care Sheer blouses and low-cut dress- | es thrust the need for personal | daintiness in summer grooming in- | to first place. To whisk stubble from armpits, cosmetic research chemists recom- mend using a safety razor and lots of soap and water. "Dry" shaving, they maintain, is irritating to sensi- tive skin, Little shavers--lady- sized razors-- are less apt to nick skin than their bigger brothers. After shaving, these experts sug- gest using a lotion for soothing and sealing minute skin abrasions. Re- commended as one you can mix yourself is a solution of half alco- hol, half water. 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