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Mary Welsh was in London for every one of its 400-odd air raids. Once a shell fragment sailed through the window of her Berkeley Square flat, nicked her left ear and shattered the sugar bowl on the table. She got down on her hands and knees to salvage the sugar before she patched up her ear. In those days her friendships in the R.A.F. brought TIME'S readers many stark, poignant stories of the men who turned back the Luftwaffe. She had learned to know a very great many of them by their first names at the front...
...Bayou spiders with gold and silver dust for a treacherous daughter's highfalutin wedding. But the latter part of Drivin' Woman is an account of the bracing fight of the small tobacco farmers against the Trust. Descriptions of raising, grading, priming and selling tobacco result in a fragment of U.S. social-and-economic history so simple and sound that not even Mrs. Chevalier's panchromatic prose can make it much less...
...Similar conditions still persist in the interiors of several stars, of which an egg-sized fragment weighs tons...
...Group airdrome. Alone, Pilot Parker Dupuoy tackled the first wave of 27 bombers. Eight Jap fighters charged him. He blew up one fighter at 17,000 ft., then his ammunition ran out and he scooted for the field, on which bombs were already dropping. When he landed, a bomb fragment creased his right arm. Jernstedt, who had gone up to help him, got a bloody face from a shattered windshield, but landed his plane safely...
...bomb fragment clipped a gunner in the back of his head, apparently knocked him out. The other gunners started toward him. "Get back to that gun, you bastards!" he shouted. They got back, fast...