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YUGOSLAV Airlines' Flight 367 from Stockholm to Belgrade had just passed over the northern border of Czechoslovakia last week when an explosion shook the plane. The bomb-stricken DC-9 fell from the skies and crashed near the Bohemian town of Česká Kamenice, killing all but one of the 28 people aboard. A few hours later, another bomb went off on the Ljubljana-to-Belgrade express outside Zagreb, injuring six passengers...
...deputy chief to Ike Eisenhower's P.W. branch in 1944, Jackson worked his staff around the clock in London's Inver-esk House on the touchiest campaign of the war: rousing the conquered peoples of Europe, by radio and leaflet, to active support for Dday. As D-day grew closer, they warned of bombings to come, urged the French into effective disobedience of German orders. Finally they sent the organized French underground after important specific targets like bridges and railroad switches...
EUROPE TO LET - Storm Jameson -Macmillan ($2.50). Europe to Let consists of four stories of that continent between-the-wars. Told, with bitter anger, by a fictional British writer named Mr. Esk, their essential subject is despair, fear, moral bankruptcy. They sketch the genesis of Naziism, death of Vienna, betrayal of Czecho-Slovakia, premonitions in Hungary...
Past such colorful names as Skipjack, Puffin, Foxhound, Esk, Fearless, Wild Swanand Escapade the royal flotilla passed, with each ship, swathed in flags, banging out a 21-gun salute, her crew hand in hand, lining the rails...
...Guaranteed.! Analyze it, mister! I esk you personally to analyze it! We call this our 'ladies' shop'! Four more we got in New York, and on Broadway one silver and black! Deliver anything anytime from 8 a. m. to 2 a. m. Just phone Murray Hill 7522 and ask for Mack. You see this cherry brandy?"-holding up a large bottle in which floated four cherries-"That stuff is 90 proof, ninetee proof...