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...Wanted Wings." In Amarillo, Tex., B. P. Brents wondered what on earth to do with a Flying Fortress he had just won in an essay contest. His winning thesis: "What I'd do with a Flying Fortress...
...Copts for over a thousand years. When St. Mark first brought his gospel to Egypt, Christianity spread rapidly among the Egyptian fellahin, downtrodden descendants of the pyramid builders who took readily to a clear-cut doctrine of life-after-death. At first they had to flee into fortress-like monasteries to escape the persecutions of Hellenic Alexandria and the desert barbarians. Later pagan Alexandria too was converted, rivaled Rome as a Christian capital...
...Little for Too Few. Since his discharge last October from the A.A.F. (he was a Stateside Flying Fortress pilot), Mike Straight has wished that the never-profitable New Republic had more to say, more people to say it to. Anxious to multiply its audience (now a record 41,000) to a quarter of a million, he decided to "break the rhythm" of the magazine...
...numbered Thomas Mann among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit of the small bourgeoisie." In this tradition, Simplicissimus also faithfully recorded each new step in Adolf Hitler's rise to power-a rise which Simpl...
...French Touch. Because he believes that "an island fortress must always be on its guard against provincialism," Connolly prints French poetry to mix with book reviews, essays on novelist-philosophers, letters from Continental capitals (by such contributors as Clarissa Churchill, Winston's niece), the autobiography of still sprightly Painter Augustus John (now at Installment XVI). In politics Connolly is a Socialist, but (to the bafflement of the literary left) he thinks that is none of his magazine's business...