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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as the blitzed cities of Britain had done, the bombed cities of Germany demonstrated an amazing capacity for recovery. The Air Ministry's extraordinarily efficient intelligence service supplied the evidence time & again. In detail, this evidence is secret, but the public can read the facts in the record of cities heavily bombed, then bombed again & yet again-evidently the R.A.F. still considered them worthwhile targets...
MARK TWAIN: MAN AND LEGEND-DeLancey Ferguson-Bobbs-Merrill($3). This biography aims "to trace in detail Mark Twain's career as a writing man, passing over lightly or ignoring, his multifarious nonliterary doings. " DeLancey Ferguson (professor of English at Western Reserve University) does an orderly tour of Mark Twain's professional career through his last lonely years, solaced by frenzied billiard games, Baconian theories, a glorified piano player, the dictation of his Autobiography. " Every character he ever wrote about, including Joan of Arc," says Ferguson, "was either drawn from the intensive experience of his first thirty years...
...Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with the Senators, one read: Orders of the Day From: The Commanding Officer To: The Baseball Detail Subject: Baseball game at 1530 [3:30] today Orders...
...frequently on the move between his headquarters, the fleet's ports and production centers, but he knows exactly what actions are taking place. When a U-boat comes into port, Doenitz is frequently there to greet the commander. He carefully studies the logs of the cruises, notes every detail of combat, and applies their lessons in future orders...
...National Defense Minister James Layton Ralston is a Baptist, a great Canadian, a hog for detail...