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...Helsinki last week a surprise guest crashed a birthday party. It was Adolf Hitler. He appeared at a celebration in honor of Finland's hard-bitten Field Marshal, Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, now a well-preserved 75, who was probably less surprised than most of his countrymen...
...England. He arrived with an imposing accompaniment of special U.S. talent: Rear Admiral Jack Towers, head of the Naval Air Service; Lieut. General Hap Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower, operations chief of the Army General Staff; Brigadier General William C. Lee, hard-bitten boss of the Army's parachutists and airborne troops...
...such fifth-magnitude twinklers as Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, and Raymond Massey perfume the bill. The only trouble is, there's no suspense. The audience knows that the six are marked men. All it has to do is sit back and gloat while six mouthsful of dust are bitten at pleasantly alternating intervals. The democratic shepherd and his sheep seem so safe from the pranks of these stupid little heilers. But it's fun, if you've had an exam and are feeling mildly sadistic...
...were sometimes found punched in plane wings); that when the company attempted to fire suspected men, the union intervened; that the Navy stepped in to end sabotage. From the plants also came rumors that confusion, inefficiency and mismanagement had delayed production. From aircraft circles came gossip: Brewster officials had bitten off more than they could chew. From James Work, chairman of the Brewster Board, who has seen his company mushroom from a little subcontractor into a big prime contractor with over $100,000,000 worth of orders, came only silence...
Chomp. In Los Angeles, hospital patient Letha Mooney, speechless, explained in writing that a woman named Lollipop had bitten her tongue off in a cafe brawl. Asked just how it happened, she wrote: "I don't know. It happened so fast...