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...Friendly Editors will supply in concentrated lessons what you lack in experience. In Harvard's only course in journalistic style, all comers will learn how to be gentle, how to be sentimental, how to boost subtly a pet idea, and, last but not least, how to don the silver armor (which hangs freshly polished, semperparatus, behind the Managing Editor's desk) and ride roughshod over the tyrants of University Hall and drive the money changers from Lehman. They will be received in the dressing rooms of stars of the legitimate and illegitimate stages and interview the aspirants to fame that...
...magnetic interference and variations. There is less interference from ship metal or electrical apparatus than in the magnetic compass, because the pickup coils need not be in the navigator's cabin, can be installed where they will not be affected by the ship's bomb load or armor...
Pilots in New Guinea said that the new plane was about the same size as the old Zeros (about 38-39 ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long); was powered by an in-line V-type engine (the various Zeros have radial, air-cooled engines); had armor; carried one 7.7-mm. machine gun in each wing and two 12.7-mm. machine guns in the nose. In armament, the Japs had evidently borrowed some ideas from the Americans' destructive .50-caliber machine guns, to which the 12.7 roughly corresponds. New Guinea flyers said that the newcomer could outdive...
...returns from the front was brought in by the Navy's "Butch" O'Hare. What the Navy needed, he told Grumman men, was a fighter aircraft that could outclimb and outmaneuver a Zero, carry more .50-caliber guns than the Wildcat (four), lug a decent load of armor, and range farther than any Navy fighter had ever ranged before...
...Intelligence) must gather, evaluate and disseminate all essential information (notes about the enemy's armor, defenses, equipment, facts about the terrain, everything that needs to be known before the start of a combat). Head of Eisenhower's smooth-working Intelligence is Brigadier Kenneth W. D. Strong, at 43 one of the British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers...