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...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the Battle of Britain might have to be won on the ploughed fields of an island traditionally never more than a hop, skip & amp; a jump ahead of starvation. Into the fields last week Britain sent all her schoolchildren, rich & poor alike. The farming problem was acute...
...official scapegoats for the Pearl Harbor disaster-Major General Walter C. Short, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel-went into voluntary retirement last week. But not to batten peacefully on their retirement pay ($6,000 a year). The Army & Navy were preparing to court-martial them. Just when the trials would come off was left hazy. The courts-martial would be held, the War and Navy Departments announced, when "the public interest and safety" permit...
...fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered. . . . But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase" (TIME, Dec. 9). Watt are you talking about? Ampère would feel complimented. Is it not well-established English orthography to lower-case such pioneers? Rudolf Diesel devised, in fact, such a unique power plant that it seems almost redundant nowadays to append to diesel, fully self-explanatory, the generic term engine...
...fare. At the, time, Myrtle was finding billings hard to come by, and she didn't quite know how to support herself and her 19-year-old daughter Donna, who had done a bit of hoofing before things got tough. So she whipped together a script called Myrt & Marge, recounting the adventures of a mother & daughter intent upon making a theatrical splash. It was promptly sponsored by William Wrigley Jr., later taken over by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. One of the most popular and durable of the day time serials, its estimated audience was 2,750,000 five times...
...week had been his last-minute efforts to prevent Mussolini's attack. He smiled and waved when the crowd at the Charlottesville station hailed his arrival. Then, through the streets of quiet Charlottesville, he drove to the Memorial Gymnasium of the University of Virginia, to don his cap amp; gown and face the graduating class to deliver his speech of the tenth day of June...