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...hour out of Natal over the Atlantic, a U.S. pilot in the first group ferrying planes to the British at Bathurst noticed a cylinder "missing." He was able to return to Natal and land, though beacon and runway lights were out, the field deserted. Mechanics discovered one very loose spark plug, several wiggly ignition wires. Since then airport lights shine all night and pilots stand two-hour watches over their planes...
Take me, for instance. I'm not exactly a Middlewesterner in the true sense of the word. I come from Cleveland, which, for the benefit of Bostonians, is located in the state of Ohio some 700 miles west of Beacon Hill. Easterners claim that Cleveland is part of the West and Middlewesterners claim that Cleveland is part of the East, and all in all, no one seems to want the city except for the Cuyahoga County Democratic Committee...
...grey-eyed, schoolmarmish New England girl named Gertrude Battles Lane spent her last $10 to get from Boston to Manhattan where, on the strength of her experience as stenographer and part-time editor of the puny Boston Beacon, she got a job with the Woman's Home Companion at $18 a week. Last week Gertrude Lane died, a late-fiftyish spinster, one of the few great women editors* in the U.S., a vice president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., and although she had never asked for a raise, earning $52,000 a year...
Close to the Job. Typical of his operation was his decision when the shining new War Department building on Washington's Virginia Avenue was opened two months ago. Its broad halls and stately offices were a beacon for any man who loves comfort and elegance. Many of the civilians in the department moved to the new building. But Henry Stimson hung on to his old office in the rabbit warren of the rambling Munitions building where most of the Army's Washington soldiers work...
...national Sunday supplement called Parade, with content lifted discreetly from PM itself. Fifth issue of Parade was last week distributed to 700,000 readers through newsstands (5? a copy), such un-PM-like newspapers as the Nashville Tennessean, John Shively Knight's Detroit Free Press and Akron Beacon-Journal, Eugene Meyer's Washington Post...