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Fast Mix. The Douglas "Mixmaster," military prototype of the DC-8, cracked the cross-cpuntry speed record. With a good tail wind helping its tail propellers, it averaged 432 miles an hour from Long Beach, Calif., to Washington's Boiling Field. Flying time: five hours, 17 min utes, 34 seconds. After the plane landed, one motor caught fire. It was quickly extinguished, but the plane had to be ignobly pushed to the hangar...
...landing on Beach Red (the Army's designation for the assault beach) Author Bowman makes almost as much noise as the Navy guns...
...Beach Red Sergeant Peter Bowman has established a literary beachhead. His brief (122-page) book, December Book-of-the-Month Club co-choice,* is the first novel by a combat author to describe the seizure of a Pacific island from the Japanese. It is the first time that such an action has been narrated in a medium which looks like unrhymed verse but which Author Bowman stoutly insists is sprung prose.† Prose or verse, it is the best form in which to tell Author Bowman's story-the thoughts that pass through a soldier's head during...
...Most of Beach Red describes the painful advance of a four-man reconaissance patrol toward the Japanese lines, their fear, their comradeship, their gallantry, their courage, and the thoughts that stream through the mind of the narrator (the only remaining member of the patrol) as he himself lies wounded...
...qualities that makes Sherrod a great war reporter was revealed when he had a chance to go ashore on the lethal beach at Iwo Jima. The first night of the invasion a colleague urged him: "I wouldn't go there, if I were you. It's plain foolishness. The Nips are going to open up with everything they've got to impart." Writes Sherrod: "I looked down into the faces of the men in the boat, and I saw written on them the same fear that gripped at my guts. I knew these men could not stay...