Transport: Blackout

Britishers take all their community enterprises very seriously. In bomb-wary London last week some 8,000,000 Britishers night after night played blackout as earnestly as if it had been a bridge drive: ^ An omnibus, rumbling cumbrously across Harrow Road, its headlights painted dark blue, its horn mute, struck and killed a woman. A coroner's jury exonerated the bus driver. The woman had gone strolling clad from hat to shoes entirely in black.

> A lawyer, Arthur Nash, climbed wearily to his walk-up flat, flipped a light switch. Indignant neighbors gathered in the street, threatened...

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