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...cross on the airfield, a white flag on the wrecked harbor installations. By 12:22 p.m. British landing parties had scrambled ashore, mopped up a few troops who had either not been informed of the surrender or could not see their own signals through Pantelleria's shroud of brushwood smoke. The landing party herded together the first 8,000 bomb-dizzy troops while 50 German dive-bombers, sneaking south from Sicily in the hope of a sudden kill, were slapped about by Allied fighters...
While gathering brushwood for a fire to keep off the packs of wild dogs that roam the former site of London, an archeologist of the Royal Society of Abyssinia found an ancient, 20th-century thermos bottle. In the bottle was the Hopkins Manuscript. Since the damp climate of the British Isles rotted all books and papers, practically the only other records of the white man's glory known to the vigorous civilizations of the East were a rusty iron tablet (when deciphered, it read: Keep Off the Grass) and an oblong stone (it was believed to read: Peckham...
...Brushwood Boy (Thurs. 10 p.m. CBS). The Columbia Workshop presents Rudyard Kipling's short story adapted for radio by Eustace Wyatt of the Mercury Theatre; directed by Earle McGill...
...Island that his family did not own. The Federal Government, naturally, has never attempted to preserve the 227 acres which once threatened to be the jumping-off place for its dissolution. But Mr. Gordon is going to clean up and preserve the island. He is going to cut the brushwood out of the depression which is all that is left of Harman Blennerhassett's home, freshen up the well which is the last material relic of this half-forgotten episode in the days of the nation's growing pains...
...great Boulder Dam warrants universal approval because it will prevent floods and flood damage, because it will irrigate thousands of acres of tillable land and because it will generate electricity to run the wheels of many factories and illuminate countless homes. But can we say that a five-foot brushwood dam across the head waters of an arroyo, and costing only a millionth part of Boulder Dam, is an undesirable project or a waste of money? Can we say that the great brick high school, costing $2,000,000 is a useful expenditure but that a little wooden school house...