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Keep calm and carry on making stuff up

September 4, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

I’ve long nursed the heretical notion that maybe “Londoners’ bravery during the Blitz” might have been half-way b.s.

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A sea of destruction awaited Morley the next morning. Working for Fox Photos, he knew that if he took the pictures of the destroyed homes, his photos would not be published. A lot of his earlier work had been censored. In front of a back drop of firefighters struggling to contain a fire, he had an idea. He borrowed the coat and milk carrier from a milkman and asked his assistant to walk across the bombed moonscape. London carries on, the stage photo proclaimed, and the censor waved the picture through.

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