Dogged to the end, some Londoners stuck rigidly to their bowlers and black jackets. But as the mercury climbed ever higher & higher, bared braces began to appear here & there. The Hon. Mr. Justice Birkett of the King's Bench Division permitted counsel to remove their wigs, while at Westminster the members of Britain's Board of Trade took bathing suits off the ration list ten days ahead of schedule. "The sun," said one official, "melted our resistance."
Many another staunch spirit was equally unstarched last week. In a quick one-two, Britain's July temperatures had shifted from the coldest since 1901 to the...
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