Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flat-topped, lopsided but swift as a cruiser, an aircraft carrier at work is an ugly, color-splashed, noisy inferno. Launching her planes from the crowded flight deck, she throbs with the rumble of warming airplane engines. Hooded men in brilliant yellow, red, blue and green uniforms (to denote their functions) swiftly work the planes forward to take-off position. Every few seconds the roar of an engine in full throttle thunders through the echoing ship as another plane takes off. Only when the last bomber is in the air and the formations shrink into the sky does she settle...
...Brilliant Rusty Greenhood is sure to give up-and-coming Sophomore Shaw McCutcheon a run for his money in the dive if he does not beat him. Brad Patterson, another promising second-year man, will also be competing in that event...
...Gibraltar welcomed the assignment last week of escorting three supply ships bound for Malta through what Italy still calls Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea") but which cartoonists now label Nightmare Nostrum. It was known that what was left of the Italian Navy after Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham's brilliant aerial-torpedo stab into its main base at Taranto (TIME, Nov. 25) had scuttled for a more remote hideaway, probably Cagliari on Sardinia's south coast or Naples on the mainland. Perhaps the British keepers of the western gate of Italy's prison, under Vice Admiral Sir James...
...Janeiro, last fortnight broke with Latin tradition, hired a female columnist. Said proud Diario: "This admirable woman, whose fascinating personality does not vanish behind the radiance of her husband's great importance, is not only a fine companion for the President but has a keen and brilliant mind and a generous heart. ..." Name of the column: My Day, by Eleanor Roosevelt. Flown to Rio thrice a week, My Day appears in Diario in both English and Portuguese, runs seven days behind its U. S. publication date...
...Brilliant Alfred was not much interested in money, left all business details to Harold, used to say with a careless gesture: "My rich brother can handle that." By the time Lord Northcliffe died in 1922, they also owned the stately London Times, the Daily Mirror, various lesser publishing enterprises. Out of a welter of involved deals and suits that followed Northcliffe's death, Rothermere emerged with control of all these properties except the Times, which was sold to Major John Jacob Astor...