J Firemen in Columbia. South Carolina (U.S.A.) tell of a woman of Columbia, 'who found the former King Edward 's farewell broadcast, on the occasion of his abdication, so engrossing that she refused to allow a fire in her hoine to interfero with her listening at her radio. The firemen answered an alarm from her homo just as Edward started r.is address. As they vuslied into the house she toid them: "If the top of i lie house bnrns, provided it doesn 't eave in, 1 'rn stili going to hear the Kinm " While they extinguished the blaze tlie woman listened to the broadcast from London.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 75, 15 April 1937, Page 8
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