For 90 minutes or so it was like old times in London's Stepney. Homes along Brunton's Place, Raby Street and Salmon Lane were evacuated, buses were stopped. Sick animals from the People's Dispensary had been moved to a safer place, and in the old air-raid shelter near the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, the neighbors were gathered once more waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad successfully took the the surface. The 2,775-lb....
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