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Towards midnight, a flare burst from a circling airplane, bathed the marsh in man-made moonlight. Boats pushed out from the rushes, pulled alongside the plane's door. Rescuers began removing the passengers. Dr. Crile had begun to wander a bit. "I am Dr. George Crile," he said. "I want a warm bath." Captain O'Brien was unconscious...
...work my editorial policy in with an advertiser." He hopes to put his editorial policy across by way of an hour sustaining show once a month. "I don't want to do the sort of thing The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24) is doing," he pontificates. "No flare of drums and 'now we take you to Valley Forge'. . . . We don't need pompous democracy. I'm no junior Laval...
...armor plate. Here Donald Nelson was of enormous help. Of a ton of newspaper clippings gossiping about his deathly struggles with military buyers, not one is wholly true. They got along from the start, and what differences they had were settled before the press heard of them. Momentary flare-ups occur, say insiders, but Nelson and his men speak the same language as the military men, particularly since he has shown them how to buy quantities in slack seasons...
Among the tribulations of combat pilots are the flare of searchlights, the crump of bursting ack-ack shells. Another kind of flier, the duck, finds the same things just as annoying. Month ago the 198th Coast Artillery, at Camp Upton, L. I., postponed its aerial target practice because hunters complained that the firing was scaring away wild ducks. Last week the 198th fell foul of the birds again...
Only occasionally does Barrymore's great talent for mimicry flare. For the remainder he merely peeks over a pince-nez, flings an occasional gesture with his personable paws as if the whole business were just a nuisance...