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...been fun to read about your far-flung correspondents and your globe-girdling editors and the girls who dot every word in TIME/' says a man in Washington. "But the member of your staff who interests me most is Circulation Director F. D. Pratt, the guy who sends me those letters when my subscription is about to expire. I suspect he's led a fascinating and probably misspent life, and I wish you'd tell us about...
Later that day, ignoring the destruction of the fleet they were to have aided, the survivors of Japanese air squadrons tried to strike their second scheduled blow, right on the dot. U.S. airmen smothered the weak attack, upped their score of enemy planes...
...conference (see U.S. AT WAR), the Prime Minister sat just behind and to the right of the President. As always, he was impeccably and stiffly dressed-dark blue suit, Hooverish collar, black-ribboned pince-nez, dark tie-in contrast with the President's light green tweed coat, polka-dot...
Deadly Defense. With K8, a gunner needs relatively little training. He sets three dials, recording the altitude and speed of his own ship and the wing span of the target plane (after he recognizes the type), then looks through the sight itself -a circle of orange light with a dot in the center. Using a foot pedal to regulate the circle's size, he frames the target, from wing tip to wing tip, in the circle (see cut). The machine then instantaneously makes all the necessary computations; all the gunner has to do is press the trigger...
...million Londoners are homeless, hundreds of thousands are living in "acute discomfort." Lack of labor, materials, time have made it impossible to rebuild wrecked houses. This winter at least 10,000 Nissen-type Army huts will dot the London landscape as emergency shelters. But they will shelter only a fraction of the homeless...