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...Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair last week gave a name to the Nazi nuisance raiders: he called them "the scalded cats." Usually streaking in at high altitudes, singly or in small groups, Me 410 and FW 190 fighter-bombers cross the Channel from France in 16 minutes or so, dump their bombloads anywhere, skedaddle for home. These in-&-out tactics give the Fighter Command and anti-aircraft guns slight chance to strike back, but the R.A.F. has bagged more than 6% of the intruders. (British Mosquito bomber losses over Germany: less than...
...fourth night Premier Joseph Stalin, dressed in the uniform of a Red Army Marshal, received Eden and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. There was a mild flurry back in the U.S.: could it be a snub? But Mountaineer Hull, ever sensitive about his honor and dignity, was unruffled; he knew of the meeting in advance, four nights later had his own audience with Stalin...
...South's liveliest, best faculties, including Archibald Henderson (biographer of George Bernard Shaw), Sociologist Howard Washington Odum (Rain bow Round My Shoulder), Pulitzer Prize Playwright Paul Eliot Green (In Abraham's Bosom), Milton Joseph Rosenau (communicable diseases), Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (biographer of Henry Ford), Rupert Bayless Vance (Human Geography of the South...
...Army, died on duty last spring in Alaska. Teddy Jr. deserted the publishing business in 1941, rejoined the Army, became a brigadier general, fought in Tunisia and distinguished himself for his memory of soldiers' names, his strut and his coolness under fire. The other son was Archibald...
When U.S. troops were advancing on Salamaua a fortnight ago, Lieut. Colonel Archibald Roosevelt and a small party set off in a boat to make a reconnaissance tour of Salamaua harbor. Archie ordered the boat close in to the shore. Jap guns began firing. In the boat was Technician (5th grade) John Bertot, who later told the story...