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...Chicago for the past month a model T laugh-getter has been burning up the road at a $17,000-a-week clip, leaving such streamlined models as Blithe Spirit and Angel Street to choke on its dust. Called Good Night Ladies, the show is the late Avery Hopwood's 22-year-old, towel-draped Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, with hardly a line left that Hopwood would recognize, but with the situations all they were and then some...
...planes roared as far east as the new U.S. base on New Caledonia, were routed by fighters. His bombers whammed alternately at Port Moresby and north Australian ports. U.S. and Australian pilots whacked right back, destroying the Jap's planes wholesale, as many as 30 at one clip...
...long, it shoots torpedoes fore & aft, carries quick-firing cannon and anti-aircraft guns, is fast enough to keep up with any fleet. It can cruise on its own for months, with a radius of 20,000 miles. From any angle the sub looked like the best way to clip the tensing strings of Japan's supply lines...
...helmet-to replace the neck-exposing World War I helmet-not yet in production. A year ago, most of official Washington still thought that Ordnance was bumbling and boggling, overdue for a shakeup. Since then it has done better, has brought in guns and tanks at a smart clip in recent months. Whatever remains of Ordnance's complacency-much of it the result of 20 years of peacetime's lack of appropriations and neglect-General Burns is expected to clear away...
...audacious American fighter-[Lieut. Edward] O'Hare, I learned later-dart recklessly into a torrential hail of flak . . . clip off a straggler, and then in leapfrog fashion shoot down at least two others. It couldn't have taken more than a minute or two. That was the last straw for the Japs...