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...ship; how a big warship is operated; how an air task force is formed, and what it is expected to do; how the Army Commander spends his day; how your chow gets to you (or maybe why it doesn't sometimes); how German units work; the way you distinguish between truth, propaganda and pure, unadulterated BUNK...
...London wit suggested that Editor Dawson should be elevated to the peerage and take the title of Lord Dawson of Ink-to distinguish him from Lord Dawson of Penn (George VI's physician-in-ordinary...
...healthier, he believed-in a state of mind more like that of England before Churchill came in-the same disbelief in the emergency, the same confusion of objectives in the national leadership. He also decided that U.S. isolationism was exaggerated, especially in Washington, which fails to distinguish between intransigent, Nazi or Communist-inspired opposition to aiding Britain, and old-style isolationism that Americans have felt for generations and which, coming from a disbelief that America is genuinely menaced, ends the moment the danger to the U.S. becomes clear. In FORTUNE'S May issue, Taylor describes the political weapons which...
...kindly old professor of philosophy who is told that he has but six months to live, and decides that the best way to spend it is to murder a criminal who cannot be reached by the arm of the law. Jeffery Lynn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Mona Maris distinguish themselves in supporting roles. All in all, just barely better than studying...
Such signals do not distinguish defending from attacking planes. So AA. men must be sure the dark sky is clear of their own planes before opening up. Presumably the device is also adaptable for use by defending planes, which can feel out the murk with radio beams coordinated with their machine guns...