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...great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple words and direct actions glow through his book as they did through the anguished Europe of Wellington...
Though it fly with the wings of angels, a combat aircraft is no demonstrable good until it has met and passed the final test of battle. Last week the U.S. had a glow ing report on the first combat performance of its newest fighter plane, the Navy's Grumman Hellcat (F6F). It also got a well-documented secondary report on the Vought Corsair (F4U), already one of the hottest things in the Pacific...
Although the Danes ended their resistance to the Nasis soon after their country was invaded, Danish skies glow nightly with fires and explosions wreck rail lines and shipping centers. This is the epic Hasselriis will relate in his Tuesday talk...
...invitation of women's and culture clubs, lyceums and Chautauqua, Phelps delivered some 10,000 cheery lectures to some five million delighted listeners. On the air for Swift's hams and the Heinz 57 varieties, he was the literate housewife's delight. To his equal glow for the great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw...
Behind them, the "stage electrician" manipulated his switchboard. He could simulate every effect they might see on a war patrol: dawn, eastern horizon (the thin line of light which justifies the phrase "crack of dawn"); dawn, western horizon (an upper glow, quite different); fire at sea (a glow unmistakable once seen); thunder showers far off; gunfire ("Here's a cruiser coming at you," explained the CPO instructor, and the class watched the tiny, stabbing flashes grow brighter...