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Died. Mary MacSwiney, Irish Sinn Feinnef, sister of Terence MacSwiney, onetime mayor of Cork; after long illness; in Cork. A would-be Irish Joan of Arc, she lived through many a hunger strike, unlike her brother, who died of his in 1920. To the bitter end she spurned Eamon de Valera and his compromise Free State...
Flight to Arras is the most important book yet written about this war. Like all Saint-Exupéry's books, it is a description of a flight-a pilot's reflections borne upon the arc of a few hours' intense action. But this particular flight, in which Saint-Exupéry faced death, he transmutes into a magic text, at times almost Biblical, of why men fight, and how they feel in the presence of death...
...Production Board will permit them to use the crude rubber they have on hand and grant them 30 additional tons, tennis can do its share in the national keep-fit program-even with the 3,000,000 additional tennis bugs U.S.L.T.A. hopes to attract with arc-light tennis this summer...
Last week the Jap came to Rabaul on New Britain. He arrived in 100 bombers, probably from the Carolines, which he has fortified regardless of his pledge. Death from the skies was no new thing for Rabaul; in 1937 two volcanoes reared an arc of steam and lava 4,000 feet above the town. Two hundred and sixty people were killed. Jap bombers killed eleven...
...Heating vatfuls of chemicals where a flame, spark or arc would set off an explosion...