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...increasing blindness, paralleling the increasing threat of war, attempts to give the book an air of gravity. Yet such devices--and there are many--seem merely pasted on to an essentially light story; I have the feeling that they do not belong here, that they are an awkward bow to something that Tuckerman cannot handle within the scope of his novel. Well worn phrases constantly appear, as when Teuckerman talks of an English boy, "He never did understand them (the French), although with thousands of his own kind he gave up his life on French soil a few years later...
...that look like otherworld creatures peering from flying saucer portholes, and a collection of bright, bold posters (Wiinblad has done them for everybody from Danish music societies to the Marshall Plan). Standout poster: an exhortation to Danes to be musical ("Play Yourself"), showing a sprightly young lady playing a bow across strands of her hair, an almost perfect illustration of a famed T.S. Eliot line ("A woman drew her long black hair out tight / And fiddled whisper music on those strings...
...boating. But when the motor was turned off and the other was tried out, there was a difference. From 500 ft. away, the motor could not be heard at all; newsmen riding in the boats could converse in normal tones, hear the slap-slap of the waves against the bow. Vibration was cut sharply...
...Sapporo, the Emperor watched a schoolroom full of crippled children struggling painfully to their feet to greet him, and he bowed deeply to the children before they could bow to him. At Kushiro he ate the plain buckwheat noodles and mackerel of the local villagers. When his glasses needed wiping, he handed his straw hat to his Empress, who held it obediently...
...band of anxious engineers clambered onto a floating dock in San-Diego Bay recently to watch the newest U.S. Navy flying boat, out for its first water trial; as a photographer snapped away, the plane's bow gaped open like the mouth of a giant whale, revealing an enormous cavern for cargo. The So-ton craft, pictures of which were released last week, was the R3Y-2 "Flying LST," built for beach-assault operations by General Dynamics' Convair division. To pull away from a beach or dock the pilot,simply reverses propellers; the ship needs...