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What airmen saw as the flames leaped up from the bosom of the city, what shaken Germans felt on the ground, was a new epoch in warfare. The awful power of independent air might had failed for the German because he tried it with too little on a nation whose soul was too stout...
...Navy high command is under way-and the men coming up are airmen. Navy thinking recognizes clearly that sea power is in transition again, a transition as great and as clearly marked as that of a century ago, when steam revolutionized blue-water warfare. Pearl Harbor ended an epoch in naval history-an end to which the sinking of H.M.S. Prince of Wales and Repulse were only extra footnotes. The Navy now has put its full wartime emphasis on airplane carriers and on airborne attack. Blue-Water Men. The works of Alfred Thayer Mahan, for half a century, were...
...their talk. What they mostly talk about is, of course, the things near to their lives. There is a notable absence, even in the press, of great debate on the great issues of human destiny. And yet, encouragingly, there is a sense of the fate fulness of the epoch...
...Constitution, donned the red, white & blue sash-of-office which retiring Vice President Gerónimo Méndez doffed. As "Don Anónimo" Méndez walked out, Don Juan Antonio briefly announced his Cabinet and policy. Both reflected the man, as the man mirrored the epoch...
...Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...