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January 27, 1945

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a reporter at large

THE SUSPENDED DRAWING ROOM.

S. N. Behrman

REPORTER AT LARGE about England. Speaks of the nonchalance with which the English take air-raids. Alfred Lunt was standing in the wings one night ready to …