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...natural fortress of boulders and timber, near Clark's Fork Canyon 30 miles northwest of Cody, Wyo., Earl Durand, 26, the huge, hairy "true woodsman" who broke jail in Cody last fortnight and shot down two pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff Frank Blackburn was down below, coming...
...niches in an immortal hall of fame. For such a career, fate never destined the name of Albert Einstein, a man whom kings and princes have feted, whom eminent scientists have hailed as a second Newton, and to whom peace-loving multitudes in every land have turned as a fortress of tranquil serenity in a world delirious with the war fever of nationalism...
During the prayer, Franklin Roosevelt looked rapt in thought, but during the hymns (O God, Our Help in Ages Past and A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) his fine baritone could be heard clear and confident above the male choir. From church he went to the Capitol to address the joint birthday session of Congress...
Barcelona, conquered month ago by the Rebel Armies, was last week given its first look since the beginning of the war at the No. 1 Rebel, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Early one morning a 21-gun salute roared out from Montjuich fortress as Generalissimo Franco, accompanied by his Moorish guard, motored into the centre of the city. Taking his place on a stand on Barcelona's large and battered Via Diagonal, now appropriately renamed Avenida del Caudillo (Avenue of the Chief) for El Caudillo Franco, the Generalissimo reviewed units of the seven Army corps that had taken part...
Before an army pilot even starts the four engines of a Boeing Flying Fortress he has some 50 switches, gauges and gadgets to check, calls each off to his co-pilot as he goes so that nothing is missed. Before he taxies away from the line he has another score or two of check jobs to do, is thereafter kept busy, on the take-off and in the air and returning to land with a complicated set of controls...