Might he meet a German aviator inside? Well, it is possible, for there are many such floats moored throughout the Channel, and German pursuits are the underdog. Here is the cozy story of those air-sea rescue floats, like cabin cruisers with a sloping ramp instead of a propeller shaft, up which your damp aviator drags himself into a cabin with heat, food, and a radio. Here, in masculine, vivid English is the true story of what the RAF and now our own airmen do when they are “ ditched" here is how the crew of a bomber brace themselves when the craft cracks into the sea here is how a fighter pilot holds his nose, releases his parachute harness, and grips fast to his dinghy pack just as his feet touch the water. Johnson liked to walk here and touch these iron pillars for good luck. “The Middle Temple Hall where Twelfth Night had its premiere still stands, and see that fine Elizabethan bit down there-undamaged! Dr. Then we turned to watch the crew of a captive balloon (half of them women) hauling down their big gray elephant. Lucas used to sit, reading manuscripts for Methuen. We passed the big window the glass still in it, for a wonder - where E. But they’d not like it like this-” We came to Pump Court and the very stairs down which Mr. “And so did your own Sinclair Lewis, for he wrote Dodsworth here. “Thackeray loved this place,” he said reflectively, as our walk continued. “Now, down this way is Crown Office Row,” he led the way, “and here Charles Lamb was born Rubble, topped by the skeleton of the Round Church. Bone, pointing not to a living building but to a huge vat of water. “Goldsmith did some of his best work when he lived in this Court,” said Mr.
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