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First big Nazi air attack began on Aug. 8 near Dover. Before daybreak a flotilla of Nazi motor torpedo boats darted into a Channel convoy of 20 small coastal ships, sank three. The convoy continued westward down the Channel. About 9 a.m., 50 Junkers dive bombers, with Messerschmitt fighters swarming above them, swooped out of the morning sun. Some of the ships were towing barrage balloons which the Germans had to shoot down before they could dive-bomb. Anti-aircraft fire and squadrons of angry British Spitfires and Hurricanes hurtled up from the British coast. The sky spun crazily with...
Peculiar to this century is a form of wit inadequately known as screwball. Its method is free association; its state of mind is somewhere between a power dive and a tail spin. It has close affinity with hot jazz, surrealist painting and the deranged poetry of Rimbaud. It calls for an exquisite sense of cliche and mimicry, and a nihilism which delights in knocking over-crystallized words, objects and gestures into glassy pieces that cut each other. Most advanced living practitioner of this form of wit is James Joyce. Perhaps quite as richly gifted in it, if far more inhibited...
...weeks old was the hitherto censored story of the 16,243-ton Cunarder Lancastria. She was sunk in mid-June off the French harbor of Saint-Nazaire just after embarking 5,000 British troops and a sprinkling of refugee women & children for evacuation to England. Nine Stukas dived on her, three at a time. The first two waves missed. The third connected, but none of the three planes came out of its dive. All crashed into the sea. One bomb went down the Lancastrians funnel. The liner heeled over, trapping hundreds of victims below decks. The water was filled with...
...surprise to most of the world in the Nazi drive through the Lowlands and northern France was the terrible accuracy of German dive bombers. Except for the U. S. Naval Air Service (which originated dive bombing, still works hard and ably at it), few of the world's air forces had fully realized the sharpshooting possibilities of a heavy bomb projected straight & true from a diving airplane...
...they have their living to make. When Leader Walters takes on a marijuana-shattered former employe named Frenchy Beausea for the sake of Frenchy's metallic wife, whom he svengalizes into a smash singer, the whole band ripens for trouble. It bursts, at length, in a riverfront dive in St. Louis. At the end of it George Baker has realized his own powers and is free at last to use them: but whether he can, after years of creative suicide, the Walters hypnosis, the fertility of opposition, he is not quite sure...