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Quality Party. Like Commando troops, Rangers learn to skin up high trees, descend 200-ft. precipices on ropes, study the trade of the knife man and the strangler. To the newsmen visitors the training seemed to demand thugs and gangsters; but the British, who have tried that type, know better. "They never pan out-mostly yellow," said a Commando instructor...
With a third Russian actress (Ludmilla Toretska) they descend uninvited upon a flabbergasted Long Island family. One of the Slavs is soulful, one is sexy, one is earthy; all are broke and ebullient. When not badgering their host to angel a play, they jabber about the beauty of silence, emote about love and art and nothing at all, quite happily drink poison. The poison turns out to be peach brandy...
...British know well the famines that follow in South and East Africa, Egypt and Palestine when the long-winged, omnivorous grasshoppers regularly descend on the lands. One locust invasion of Kenya did ?300,000 worth of crop damage. They know that the creeping locust hordes have actually slushed trucks and even trains to a stop with the muck of their billion-bodied mass. One mass of locusts crossing the Red Sea covered an area of 2,000 sq. mi. Said Britain's Russian-born entomologist, Boris Petrovich Uvarov, locust-control authority and a chief organizer of the new campaign...
...TIME, Sept. 28) on the inadvisability of using rubber panties as a gas mask was very thorough and correct except for one thing. During a gas attack, he advocates staying indoors and lying on the floor with head in arms. Since all war gases are heavier than air they descend to the lowest level possible, and in this case the lowest level in the room is the floor. It would seem that a better position would be to sit or stand in the room. STEPHEN E. ULRICH 1st Lieut., C.W.S. Chicago Chemical Warfare Procurement District War Department Chicago...
Final dove descend...