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...Cruiser Squadron and the U. S. Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well as to Liverpool) are even more disparate when laid against the extra miles the R. N. must plow from Portland, Devonport or even Pembroke...
...Manchester, the Midlands textile centre. So did Derby, where Rolls-Royce engines are made for Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. Other motor and aircraft factories at Birmingham and Coventry, attacked before, were attacked again & again. While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British stubbornness prevented the evacuation last week of such smashed-up places as Ramsgate, Dover, Southampton (see col. j). In the headlines appeared damage to such sentimental landmarks as St. Giles, Crip-plegate, in London where Oliver Cromwell was married and John Milton buried. Milton...
...Tactic." The German war communique of Saturday, July 27, told of successful air attacks on "port facilities at Cardiff, Aberthoaw and Hastings . . . the railroad junction at Tunbridge Wells and big oil tanks at Thames Haven." Significantly Telegrafo, the Leghorn daily owned by Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, who visited Hitler and Goring in Berlin last fortnight, observed over the weekend: ". . . To those- and they are millions-who are asking, 'When will the great hostilities against the British Isles begin?', yesterday's communique seems to reply, 'But don't you see that it has already begun...
...Wild West he dis covered that U. S. dinosaurs sometimes weighed 40 tons, that cretaceous birds had teeth, that cretaceous seas contained sea serpents. He helped organize the U. S. Geological Survey (see p. 66), was a lifelong friend of British Evolutionist Thomas Huxley. He exposed the Cardiff Giant ("a gypsum man, ten and a half feet long, nude, virile and unabashed") as a fake. His biography by Clara LeVene and Professor Schuchert, one of the few co-workers whose respect and affection managed to transcend the great paleontologist's "autocratic tendency," reconstructs the life of Othniel Charles Marsh...
...Last week Adam arrived in Manhattan, was unveiled to the U. S. public at 57th Street's Fine Arts Galleries, at 50? a peek. All indications were that, as a come-on curiosity, Adam might run a close second to John Wilkes Booth's mummy or the Cardiff giant. Said a weary gallery attendant: "It's enough to make a fella blush." "I don't know why Eve fell for that guy," muttered one observer. "My dear young woman," retorted a nearby dowager, "she had no choice...