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...R.A.F. chiefs labored to make the best available force with the minimum material. They based their force on the earliest foundations of British planecraft. The company founded by the first man to fly a plane in England (1908), A. V. Roe, is today the builder of Avro Anson, Manchester and Lancaster bombers. From the Bristol Box Kite descends today's Bristol Blenheims, Beauforts, Beaufighters...
...curtail rail travel, big-league baseball last week agreed to forego its southern training season-a practice that dates back to 1886 when fabulous Pop Anson took his Chicago .White Stockings to Hot Springs, Ark. for a tonic. This year's unkinking must be done north of the Potomac and Ohio and east of the Mississippi (with the exception of St. Louis' two clubs, which may train anywhere in Missouri...
...lost cause. Most amusing was Hesketh Pearson's G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser's fervent celebration of the famously forgotten great man of science Willard Gibbs ($3.50) ; Franz Werfel's Verdi: the Man in His Letters...
...greatest news for seagoing Britannia was First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander's recent reports that naval losses suffered since the war began have been replaced, and that in some categories the Navy has grown in size and power. Newest battleships to join the fleet: the Anson and Howe, mighty 35,000-ton vessels, each carrying ten 14-in. guns. As to merchantmen, the First Lord proudly reported that Britain still produces "more tons of shipping per man than they do with all the modern methods in America...
...Hall of Fame. But in his home park . last week he got the 3,000th hit of his big-league career. In the long history of baseball, only six others have accomplished this feat. They are Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, Napoleon Lajoie, and Pop Anson-Immortals...