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...delightful. The Fiji native, one of the world's finest indolent characters, is happy, hospitable, courteous. He is an excellent singer and he sings almost all the time. He is also a superb sailor and navigator. The 19th-Century Chief Thakombau was the title character of Adolf Brewster's King of the Cannibal Isles, and there have been cases of Fijis eating each other and missionaries, but the habit has died...
...road to Ellis paved with good intentions," gurgled the Sage of the Age as he downed the Antaya bottle of Brewster get tight, his spirits growing Dampier and Dampier. "Cummings," he yelled at the door. "You may get a Hanover too. Diaz mean to Sayres that Lewis still sober...
...answers to his pregnant questions were hinted at by Maine's Republican Senator Ralph Brewster, hornet-mad over the lack of a real unified command on the Arctic front. Said he: "Naval forces in the area are commanded from Seattle, while Army units are commanded from Anchorage, Alaska. That means the two responsible officers are 2,000 miles apart." The highest ranking military man on the Alaskan scene is Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner, who controls Army operations there, but when concurrent Navy sea or air action is needed, orders must come from Vice Admiral Charles Freeman...
...suddenly and silently as it had seized the plants of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. (TIME, May 4), the Navy last week returned them to private management. The new president: Charles A. Van Dusen, former production man at Consolidated Aircraft. The new board of directors: Van Dusen and seven eminently respectable bankers, railroaders and others...
...said that the Miranda setup had anything to do with the Navy's seizure. But chunky Mr. Engel, who loves to lay bricks, knows that bricks that are piled carelessly atop one another will finally collapse. Around Washington this week ran the rumor that Brewster, first plant to be seized for other than labor troubles, might not be the last. The military had a cold eye on other plants where bricks were piled too high...