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From this point on, it is high-octane cops & robbers, ending with a slam-bang fist fight and a breakneck chase as the Major, Abby and the scientist dash for the water's edge and a waiting British submarine. In a simple-minded way, it is good, fast...
Jacqueline Cochran, cosmetic manufacturer, crack airplane pilot and sometime commander of the Army Air Forces' WASPS, got set last week for another dash into the war-this time as a Pacific correspondent for Liberty...
...nation's newest speed merchant is an 18-year-old, bowlegged Texas cowboy, who guesses he looks pretty funny in a 100-yd. dash. He would rather wrestle steers or score touchdowns for San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School (he was the state's top scorer two years ago). Then his coach said that track would help his footballing, so Perry Samuels became a sprinter-and all last year ran a close but chronic second to speedy teammate Charley Parker (TIME, May 15, 1944). This year he pared his 100-yd. time down...
French Fed. French automakers, who worked halfheartedly for the Nazis, sometimes spoiling as much material as they used, fed the roving field units with replacement parts. In the hard, fast dash across France, motors were worn to a mass of rattling hardware. Replacements arrived, but too slowly. Then Army Service Forces made a deal that produced replacements in France. Within a month after liberation Gnome & Rhone was rebuilding Continental tank motors; Gen eral Motors France was turning out motors for G.M.'s own famed "Six by Six" truck, the workhorse of the Army. Citroen, which had been given...
...soon found that kingmaking was the most expensive hobby in the world. He was deep in debt when he was approached by a group of Britons who, like Sickles himself, had bought shares in the Erie Railroad and now feared the loss of their investments. Sickles made a sudden dash to New York, and in a lightning coup deposed the corrupt, redoubtable Jay Gould from the presidency of Erie. When the flabbergasted tycoon suggested that in future they team up together, Sickles knocked him senseless with his crutch, hurled him through a window (Gould landed in a bed of violets...