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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While at the anti-aircraft station, the Crimson contingent learned to take apart and assemble all types of ack-ack guns as well as getting experience in firing them. They also won the commendation of the station's officers by piling out of bed one night to unload a shipment of ammunition...
...steel casing, detonator, etc.). Anti-tank mines are buried in the ground at strategic points through which approaching enemy tanks must pass. The number used may run into astronomical figures: a field 400 by 750 yards containing mines placed 1½ yards apart requires 5,000 mines. As many as 25,000 Russian mines have been dug out of one field by Nazi engineers (a path is cleared first; the rest of the field later...
...subcutaneous felinity makes real cats arch & spit; when she is asleep, cats pad across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone a la cat, husband decides to put Simone in an asylum. In the showdown...
...victim. But apparently the starfish lacks the strength to open an oyster. In doing that job, a human being usually appreciates the aid of a knife. The force required was reported in Science last week by Professor Albert Moore Reese of West Virginia University. He pulled oysters and clams apart with a large spring scale attached to steel hooks inserted in notches cut in the bivalves' shells, and he found them pretty rugged...
When people say the Chicago Times is run by a bunch of kids, they are only indulging in pardonable exaggeration. Apart from Editor Richard Finnegan (58), its news executives are softspoken, greying Managing Editor Russell Stewart, 33; News Editor Leo Zalucha, 33; Foreign Editor Irving Pflaum, once a United Press foreign correspondent, 36; Robert Kennedy, chief of the Times's Washington bureau...