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Unique among the 7,000-odd scholars of Cambridge is a mild young chap of less than average stature who is a philosopher, a psychologist, a photographer, a mechanical engineer-to-be, and in moments not otherwise occupied, a tumbling, balloon-breaking, white-faced clown with a putty nose...
...moment of its discovery until the "All Clear" sounds. Brooding over the Main Operations Board, from a perch in a glass-enclosed balcony, is the controller, key man of the setup, who determines the best way to head off the enemy. With him are officers in charge of antiaircraft, balloon barrages, searchlights and air-raid warnings. The controller, whatever his military rank, is supreme in his area. He shuttles planes about at will, cannot be gainsaid by officers in the field...
...Scout who goes ahead, trial balloon in hand, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion, whipping up sentiment pro or con whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket...
Verne's life was as quiet as his stories were lively. A lawyer's son, he went to Paris in 1848, tried his hand at playwriting, lived poor, became a stockbroker to support his wife. After the success of his Five Weeks in A Balloon, he spent most of his life at his desk, writing...
With Churchill were the Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a man whose refrigerated attitude somewhat resembles Mr. Welles's; Lord Cherwell, the Prime Minister's science adviser, recently knighted (June 12), a pioneer advocate of the balloon barrage, a vegetarian chum who constantly beats Churchill at Monopoly; Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply; General Sir John Greer Dill, chief of the British Army's Imperial Staff; Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, Vice Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound...