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...velocity of an interplanetary rocket. It is plain that nothing but a miracle or the overwhelming facts of life could rescue Claudia from her mental bassinet. Author Rose Franken makes use of life's facts, to suggest, without really achieving, the miracle. She clouts Claudia with 1) a blitz pregnancy, 2) her mother's imminent death (from cancer). The double blow brings Claudia from empty-headed infantilism to the threshold of maturity. Some cinemaddicts may feel that one of life's more solemn mysteries is sold at cut rate by Claudia's magnificat when she finds...
...last I feel called upon to come out plainly and say that I come to Harvard from Tiger town with fangs bared. From now on it is open war. John Harvard has been surprised by the blitz of the bulldog; now he is confronted with the tawny tiger...
Behind the new planes loomed the Big Three of Soviet light-plane design: Yakovlev, Iliushin and Lavochkin. Youngish, prolific, publicity-shy, the three designers had blended ideas borrowed from abroad with the Red Army's own unorthodox ideas on blitz warfare. All three have been laden heavily with honors and rubles...
...income. One thing he could not forget about their honeymoon was her insistence that they share her wealth because "no decent woman likes to have a man live with her in charity." Later that year, M.P.s accused the Captain of visiting Doris Duke Cromwell in Honolulu to duck the Blitz. He said he went to evacuate 500 British children. Minister of Information Brendan Bracken called it "beachcombing in Honolulu...
...week Captain Cunningham-Reid asked Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden what disability necessitated the transfer of Yugoslavia's Prince Paul from Kenya to South Africa. Before Mr. Eden could reply, Commander Locker-Lampson asked "from what medical disability was Captain Cunningham-Reid suffering when he left England in the Blitz?" Captain Cunningham-Reid warmly remarked that Commander Locker-Lampson reminded him of "a cuckoo which makes a nuisance of itself in other people's nests...