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They were almost smack in the middle of the Jap task force. Lieut. "Benny" Moore, his bald, bowlegged, Texas flight officer, led the others in, and Widhelm had to watch his attack theories from a raft. His main idea: the only way to escape anti-aircraft fire and yet make a hit is to start the dive higher than the books say, end it lower. On top of that, he would make the plane oscillate most of the way down so as not to be a fixed target...
...program's natural flow and fun springs very largely from the characters and voices of Joe and Pepe. They are neither professors, semanticists nor actors. Joe is huge, hugely bald Joel Grover Sayre, author (Rackety Rax, etc.), newspaperman (New York Herald Tribune, etc.), Hollywood scenarist (Gunga Din, etc.), scholar (Oxford, Heidelberg, etc.), a Midwesterner who looks like a transcendent ward boss and has also been described as a "wandering behemoth." Friend Pepe is black-haired, blue-eyed, impeccable Pedro Francisco Domecq, Vizconde de Almocaden, U.S. representative of his family's ancient (1730) Spanish sherry business, whose tart, fluent...
Same day, the House Democratic caucus produced similar results. Bald, tough Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke a piece: Hereafter Congress would exercise a more potent and compelling voice in Government. But the Speaker carefully excluded the President from any criticism...
Milling Congressional veterans shouted greetings to re-elected cronies, slapped backs, shook hands. Pages guided determined-looking first-termers through the teeming lobbies. Cameras whirred beneath incandescent lights. Vice President Henry Wallace snapped a gavel in the Senate. Bald Clerk South Trimble cracked another in the House. The 78th Congress was ready for business...
...Bald Eagle. In its broad aspects the Yugoslav disunity can be traced to failure of the United Nations to supply a dynamic post-war policy. To Author Louis Adamic, speaking for the land of his birth, Yugoslavia today is a testing ground for all of post-war Europe. In a pamphlet amplifying a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, Idealist Adamic spoke up with all the burning eloquence of a man whose mother and nine brothers and sisters are still somewhere in Yugoslavia...