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Delighted to read of the "gremlins" in this week's issue. They must be distant cousins of the "saskwatchs" who come up from the Penticton beam every night and ride along over the Cascade mountain range on our Trip 4. They jump off over Cranbrook and do an instrument letdown into the Kootenay valley to visit friends there, returning several hours later on Trip...
Churchill rose from the House of Commons' front bench, placed his sheaf of quadruple-spaced notes before him. He was the same Winston Churchill who had lived a "gay and lordly" life as a subaltern in the 4th Hussars at Bangalore, India, in 1896. Age had broadened his beam and stolen his hair. It had not changed his view on the "patience and knowledge" of the Government of India. "It is patient," Churchill the Subaltern wrote nearly 50 years ago, "because, among other things, it knows that if the worst comes to the worst, it can shoot anybody down...
...most daring gremlins are those who walk out on wing tips and make the ailerons flutter, or slide down the radio beam when a plane is making a landing. If they are in an impish mood, the gremlins either jerk away the runways so that the pilot cannot tell where to land, or they tip the nose of the plane down so that a propeller prangs. At other times they can be as nice as can be, even get invited by air-gunners into their turrets for warmth and companionship...
Whatever the owners of the 14 shortwave stations might think of the plans, they didn't say it out loud. But the OWI had plausible reasons for hogging shortwave time. A number of stations, beamed to Axis and neutral nations, are said to have innocently hired foreign-language announcers who had slyly angled scripts into Axis meanings. Also, private operators like to beam their stations to the most thickly populated areas, while the OWI wants to spread a worldwide blanket evenly. Emergency funds should cover leasing of the 14 existing stations. Another need: Official propaganda directives. But OWI brains...
...flight to Egypt found Churchill in "the office" (control cabin) of the four-motored American B-24 bomber, chattering with Pilot William Vanderkloot of Sarasota, Fla., winner of the Order of the British Empire for his Ferry Command radio-beam installations on the North Atlantic, and with Co-Pilot Jack Ruggles of San Francisco, once-wounded, four-year veteran of the Chinese Air Force...