The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-24
UNBLITZED RUESES .I

Number 13 bus line, which runs through the center of London out into the suburban section where thousands of medium and low in- come workers live, still operates during air raids.
 Blitz, or no blitZ, the men who drive and the girls who take tick cts on this line continue to work as If nothing unusual occurred. Dur ing the dark winter of l940 they said they'd never stop to take refuge in air raid shelters. And they didn't. When toher lines stopped during the height of a rail all London knew that the No. 13 busses would still be running.
 It was slow going at times. sev- eral of the big double deckers Ewere demolished by bombs and those inside killed. Many times, due to craters which blocked road ways, a No. l3 would have to weave all over the face of the city before 1t would be able to get bac kto its normal route.
 Gone with the Wind" continues to break all records at the Empire theater in Leicester Square. Every morning seven days week at 8:e0 there Is a lineup one block long. All day that line continues to form, diminish, and reform. Those who wait are soldiers, airlnen, firemen, girls of the Women's services, char women, messenger boys, bank clerks, all waiting patiently for the low priced seats on their day away from work.
 1 There's a heart throb at every step in big, rambling Huston Street railroad, station on Sunday night. Soldiers. sailors and airman, they've ben to London for 24 hours and on Sunday night their all-too-brief leave Is over. By the hundreds you see them saying goodby.
 They don't say much until the train is about to leave and then : they all begin talking rapidly, about little things. They smile and joke a lot of them do, until that last half moment and then they look grimly said.
 The girls and wives and mothers also laugh and talk about little things until the train is about to start and then, too, their laughter turns to smiling grimness = through tears. For as the carriage doors slam shut and the train be- gins slowly to pull up the track the girls and wives and mothers of the airmen and sailors, particu- larly, know that a too high per- centage will not return.
 
 BUSINESS IS
 BETTER
 Thousands who fled London dur ing the height of the raids last win- ter and spring have now returned and they, along with the more thou sands who are eating in hotels and restaurants until the moments when raids will force them again back into their homes, have made eating a lreal problem.
 Some laughingly say the city needs an air raid so one can again eat 1n QuIeC, except TOT Ine CEuInp of bombs. Go into any restaurant on any given night and the first Iquestion asked is, Have you booked table?"
 Business is that good. Unfortu- nately, however, food runs out quickly and unless you are reason ably early there will be no food available, due to the ration allot- ment which was figured for these returants 8 year ago when tht population was considerably re. duced. Service, too, is very pool now because most of the able walters have been called up into the services. And like many oi the luxury hotels which no longer accept new customers for lodging because they lack the staff tc handle the business many restau- rants after they have reached the saturation point at night lock the front door.