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...Cambridge there weren't many people around for Cotton Mather's only blowout. Less than one-quarter of the local undergraduate population was on deck for turkey day, and the Annex had a meager...
...amazing facsimile of G.B.S. Seeing and hearing the wise and pungent comments come out of the familiar countenance gives them an additional kick. Mr. Bourneuf is not new to Shaw, having appeared in "Androcles and the Lion" on Broadway two years ago. He skits up and down his poop deck, pausing only long enough to snap his verbal whip...
...ailing Robert F. Wagner, 71, has the seniority for the Banking & Currency chairmanship, and hopes to be well enough to take it. If not, the next in line is South Carolina's nails-hard, conservative Burnet Maybank, 49. Tennessee's querulous, old (79) Kenneth McKellar was on deck for the Appropriations Committee, Maryland's acidulous Millard E. Tydings for Armed Services, Georgia's Walter F. George for Finance...
...moment the might of the Red army in the account of the latest U.S. super-super-super Flying Fortress. It was so huge that the pilot, hearing a noise behind him, had to dispatch a courier by motorcycle to locate the trouble. "Just a football game on the lower deck," came the report. Another ruckus. "A water polo match in the swimming pool." A terrific bang. "Now the boys are furious, sir," reported the messenger. "A Russian plane was trying to buzz us. It flew in through the window and crashed on the basketball court...
...World War II the Navy had such able painters as Dwight Shepler and Pepsi-Cola Prizewinner Mitchell Jamieson (TIME, Oct. 4) on duty as artists. Shepler's carrier flight deck at night and Jamieson's D-day off the Normandy coast were far from being great pictures, but they hinted, as the best war photographs do and as no studio-painting can, at the fathomless actuality of battle...