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Static from the Sun. While the theorists spun their theories, two extra-large sunspots crept across the sun. The spots were many times bigger than the earth, big enough to be seen through plain smoked glass. Asked if they would tangle up earth's radios, Astronomer Robert Coles of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium said, with a gleam in his eye, that "he would not be surprised...
Uproar, Silence. Next day, correspondents and photographers jammed into the opening session of the conference in the Throne Room, whither princes of the Japanese imperial blood once came to receive their Korean vassals. Shaggy Koreans crept between the chairs, stood on benches, snapped hundreds of pictures. A few appeared as blobs in the Korean press next morning...
...would think this set-up would be pretty error-tight-but it isn't quite, and mistakes do happen. That's where the second book comes in. It's called "The Black Book," and it records all the errors which have crept into TIME. When you write us about them, we list them in the book and try to print your letter and the correction in "Letters." But some are so hard to spot that none of you ever call us on them. We list these anyway-for our own disciplining...
Mysteriously planted placards warned fraternizing Bavarian girls: "0 God, if it depends on us, you will pay for it!" Daily, the snowline crept a little farther down the mountains of Bavaria, hideout of SS men. A Sudeten German asked whether it was true that Americans were now fighting the Russians...
...then the other side of Berlin presented itself in his small, bare office: a statuesque platinum blonde in a shining satin dress that crept a span above shapely bare knees when she sat beside his desk. She fluttered her long, blue-tinted eyelashes, and smiled...