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...them also writers for The New Yorker. Staff Sergeant Harry Brown '38 is Richardson's assistant in London. An ex-Advocate editor and writer of by-lined verse for The New Yorker, Brown has just finished a book, "It's a Cinch, Private Finch," with cartoonist and unofficial Gremlin designer of Yank, Sergeant Ralph Stein. Their humorous study of the building of a soldier will be out this month...
...sands of an African desert. When they finally freed the plane the South African pilot gunned his engine and took o f Then he noticed that the tail was heavy. In his cockpit mirror he saw the image of a wind-blown figure on the tail-no gremlin, but an aircraftsman who had not let go in time. The pilot quickly landed. Hopping from the fuselage, the aircraftsman respectfully asked whether the pilot was all right. The pilot returned the question. Said the aircraftsman: "The slip stream kept me pinned to the tail fairly well...
Tough and wiry, he never looks quite well. In the blazer which he puts on to avoid the saluting problem when he drifts around to a cricket match at Cairo's Gezira Club, he looks something like a pale, thin gremlin. His appearance worries his friends. Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the whole R.A.F., on a visit to Middle East headquarters kept asking him: "Are you all right, Arthur...
There's a spherical middle-aged Gremlin Who'll spin on your stick like a top. . . . -R.A.F. Coastal Commrnd...
...your article on gremlins you fail to mention "boojums," though you have listed the names of other gremlin relatives and cousins. We who live in this section of Connecticut where the boojums are thickest don't really care, but the boojums are offended...