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...pilot radioed his control center and said he would have to descend. Control notified the R.A.F. and commercial control towers, which quickly got slow prop planes out of the way. Then the 6-47 headed downward to level out at 12,000 ft. But before it could make an instrument landing, the bomber had to lighten its fuel load. For an hour and a half it circled the field, using up fuel. There was no place nearby where it could dump its dummy bomb load. By 10:30, it was ready to attempt a landing...
...glowing specter of TV first materialized in British drawing rooms, have debated the wisdom of entrusting its future to the governmental control of the lofty British Broadcasting Corp. Some are motivated by simple boredom at their present TV fare, others by the fear that all sponsored television will promptly descend to the level of J. Fred Muggs, the U.S. chimpanzee who was used to interrupt a New York showing of the BBC's coronation telecast...
...circulation men reckoned without the Trib's aging (73) Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, who huffily frowned on the idea as undignified for the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The circulation men gently persisted, suggested that the dolls were really quite handsome, and urged the Colonel to descend from his tower office and take a look at samples. Grudgingly, the Colonel agreed; however, he made a slight mistake...
...interesting stipulations accompany the will. The first is that the Trustee shall descend from John Lowell's, grand father and always bear the name Lowell. The second demands that ten percent of the income from the Trust be turned back into the capital every year, so the original grant of a quarter of a million has multiplied many times since...
There are several good ways of mining the past in the writing business, and this year's authors have proved that all of them can be made to yield rich lore. The vogue of well-researched biography has rarely been more popular; new histories, letters and memoirs descend on U.S. book counters week after week. Occasionally, the researcher takes his camera with him and produces a pictorial report, as in the University of Chicago's handsome Persepolis (see pictures on following pages). But again and again, researchers market their researches as historical fiction. This fall, with the Christmas...