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...DYNAMIC DEFENCE-Faber & Faber (London)-25. 6d...
...everything else, men must apprentice themselves to their trade. Minus a working knowledge of the golden rules the highest gallantry is too often unavailing." So reads the preface of a soldier's handbook, Battle Training in Word and Picture (George Newnes Ltd.; 6d.), recently published in London with a War Office blessing and foreword by Viscount Gort, Chief of the British Field Forces...
Crack British flyer Amy Johnson, who angrily enlisted as a lorry driver when the Civil Air Guard turned her down as an aviatrix, was fined 10s. in a Cardiff, South Wales, court for driving without a license, ?3 for not stopping when ordered, ?2 for careless driving, 178. 6d. for not observing blackout headlight restrictions. Total fine: $25.50. The arresting constable complained that Amy used her nails on him, but she held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that...
First boom signs: Penguin Books (6d.) were swamped with orders. Book clubs and rental libraries reported big new enrollments. Large stocks moved to libraries for evacuated children, army camps (favorites: Gone With the Wind, Northwest Passage, Anthony Adverse, the Bible). A brisk trade was reported in German dictionaries, purchased by British soldiers who, they said, want to be able to read the signs to Berlin...
...selling 35,000 copies a day, big delivery trucks were rolling in and out of the churchyard, and Allen Lane had become the most spectacular success in British publishing history. The price of Penguin books: 6d (12?) a copy; the profit on each...