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...Suppose the equator (about 25,000 miles long) were a steel band and it were cut open at one point and an additional piece ten feet long spliced in. Would the space created between the equator and the earth be large enough for a six-footer to walk through, a man to crawl through or a piece of tissue paper to be slipped through...
This continuous alert against attacks from other services has been shared by Holland Smith. He is so Marine-minded that he has been known to argue against hidebound Navy thinking with his blonde, six-footer only son John Victor (Annapo lis '34), until recently a destroyer commander in the Mediterranean, now aide to Admiral Leahy...
Leigh-Mallory, a calm, strapping, 51-year-old six-footer, has been the R.A.F. fighter chief since 1942. As commander of R.A.F. No. 12 Fighter Group, he organized the offensives of 1941-42 which whittled away Germany's onetime fighter superiority over western France, and directed the air support for the Dieppe raid in August 1942. Admiral Ramsay is a tough, slit-mouthed, energetic officer who well deserves his nickname "Dynamo," pinned on him in 1940 after he had directed the almost-miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk (code name for which was "Operation Dynamo...
Advanced Fantasy. At 49, James Thurber is a greying, railish six-footer who has been prolific of achievement in the face of physical handicap. For years specialists have been fighting to save Thurber's one remaining eye. The other was accidentally put out by an arrow in the hands of his eldest brother when James...
...movie-handsome six-footer with a Tarzan build, George Putnam believes that the advent of television will be the flowering of his career. Although cinemoguls, he says, have told him that he could be "as big as anything in Hollywood," he insists that radio newscasting is his métier. And, he points out, it is not all voice: "Look at David Ross. Look at Milton Cross. They have beautiful voices, but there must be a driving force." This, and his "underlying note of friendly warmth," are what Putnam points to with pride when listeners write in, as they constantly...