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...last week, a sleek, black-and-grey light bomber took off from Alder-grove airbase in Northern Ireland and streaked westward, outrunning the thunder of its twin jets. Soaring to 41,000 ft., the R.A.F.'s Canberra raced the sun above it. Four hours and 40 minutes later, it skimmed down to Newfoundland's Gander field. The sun had made the swing in only 3½ hours. But the Canberra, averaging 445 m.p.h., had made the fastest Atlantic crossing ever, the hard way-30 minutes faster than a Mosquito bomber's five hours and ten minutes made...
...mountains spread south, their forest cover gradually changes to pine and alder, then disappears entirely. And as the forest disappears, the mountains dwindle until in the far south they become mere hills...
...Shaw's familiar characters are included in "Getting Married"; the 'umble cockney, the stuffed-shirt army officer, the female crusaders, and others. Sidney Ball, as the greengrocer-alder man, gave a performance as polished and humorous as his h'accont Peter Davidson, who has a more difficult role as the defender of snobbery, delivered his lines with perfect force and finesse. In the role of the Bishop, John Simon also knew fully what he was about, possessed some articulate eyebrows, and except for a tendency to speak in a sing-song at times, gave a good performance. As the prayer...
...expert. He is tough, ruthless, and almost as bald as a hard-boiled egg. Called in to operate on the frumpy Portland Oregonian in 1934, Efficiency Man Viskniskki took one look and laid about him with his cleaver. Deadheads rolled, deadwood was chopped away, and the "old lady of Alder Street" woke up with her face lifted...
...people of Cornwall, Q was not only a favorite regional novelist, but also local magistrate, school councilor, alder man, freeman of three Cornish towns onetime mayor of Fowey (rhymes with joy), his birthplace and home. When Q said of Samuel Johnson: "He never saw literature but as a part of life," he was stating his own, classically inspired ideal of the author as citizen...