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...times that amount in ships and planes. -Headquarters for counter-radar was Harvard's Biological Laboratory. The lab's peacetime monkeys and pickled dogfish were replaced by a regiment of electronic engineers. Their job was to poke fingers into enemy radar eyes. To get in practice for far-off German and Jap radars, the Harvardmen picked on the Radiation Lab at M.I.T., a mile away. The bitter war raged across the roofs of Cambridge...
From the first, Mowrer had the feeling -not widely shared by far-off U.S. editors -that Europe was a real and important place. He dutifully interviewed Chicagoans who came to play in Paris, learned to duck when they wanted a French-speaking guide to the brothels. In 1911, he got excited by Italy's war on Turkey, but when his editors did not share his excitement, "I wrote a furious poem in blank verse, denouncing the peoples of the Western world for [their] complacency. . . . With men killing each other in the desert, I got a request to pick...
...last week, Indian Service officials had tricked out Chief Cachirere in white man's clothes. But he was unhappy. He considered clothes unhealthy, Rio's purified water unsafe for drinking. In far-off Goiaz, federal police were tracking down the supposed quartz swindler. If white man had wronged red man in Brazil, justice would be done...
Franklin Roosevelt was not what most people would think of as a deeply religious man. Yet few of his predecessors in the White House could invoke God's help for the nation with more natural sincerity. Unofficially the far-off Vatican noted the passing of the Senior Warden of St. James' with a rare tribute: "The most Christian among statesmen...
...Pittsburgh's Pirates, who have practically the same well-balanced club that finished a far-off second to the Cardinals last season, may find it hard going without the managerial magic of Frankie Frisch, who is sicker with inflammatory arthritis than most people think...