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Black rainy clouds hung low over Philadelphia; Sunday afternoon was one long twilight that deepened steadily into gloomy night. In the gathering dusk, over the city's brick-paved streets jounced cabs from the three-day-old airport, from the dismal cavern of old Broad Street Station. Packed in the cabs were thousands of men whose minds were as wind-tossed and gloomy as the night...
Five days a week, from dawn to dusk, U. S. radio networks carry some 60 serials. Designed to provide U. S. housewives with aural escapism, they account for about half of all radio time sales. They are especially important to the makers and advertisers of soap, who have used them so extensively during the past ten years that they have come to be known as "soap operas." Leading soap-opera impresario is Procter & Gamble, whose 15 serials keep millions of women bathed in Ivory and suspense. Responsible for four of P. & G.'s sudsy dramas is Irna Phillips...
...instrument of such uncanny accuracy, is a more primitive but certainly effective means of putting air projectiles down on the bull's-eye: dive bombing. Last week, from the Marne to the Scheldt, Nazi airmen in ungainly, single-motored Junkers Ju.87s were on the go from dawn to dusk, dropping out of the dazzling sun in near-vertical dives on docks, factories, ammunition dumps, railroad bridges-any target that could be knocked out with a hit from a heavy bomb. In news dispatches the word "Stuka" (Nazi elision for Sturzkampf-flugzeug-dive fighter) took on the connotation of "Cossack...
Arrangements will be made to have an enthusiastic delegation of Wellesley girls welcome the tired Vikings when at dusk they come within hailing distance of Tupelo Point on the lake. Members of the University, especially those owning faltboots, are urged to communicate with the Commodore, H.C.A.A. Flotilla, 14 Plympton Street, if they are interested in joining the odyssey...
...said Joe last week, "don't paint wings on me. I'm just a farmer." Down on the Bridgeboro, N. J. farm is where Joe got his Galahad strength. Last week he got up at 5:30 every morning and worked till dusk pruning the farm's 7,000 apple and peach trees. But Joe is no hang-jaw hayseed. At the University of Pennsylvania his marks averaged...