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This week the British finally felt sure they were lending fighting aid to Russia for the spring campaign. Over the continent the weather had lain thick, and for a week Britain's long-range bombers had squatted glumly in their dispersal stations with no place to go. Handier ships-light bombers and pursuits-went out whenever there was a break. They picked at the pock-marked townson the invasion coast, ranged east to the Frisians off the Netherlands' coast, where they scratched a convoy and lost five planes...
...scene of operations all were fitted out with officers' uniforms. Each was supplied with a map of the 30,000-square-mile maneuver area-a map about the size of a bedspread (most of them found common road maps much handier). They were also supplied with free transportation-jeeps, command cars or ordinary taxis (hired by the Army at $10 a day). Then they were turned loose to try and find out what war was like...
...Wise, U. S. Army retired, is sharks. He apologizes for this, admits that sharks are not generally eaten, do not leap when hooked and are not formally regarded as "game" fish. But they are "as strong as a mule and as hard to kill as a cat." They are handier and less expensive for ordinary mortals to hunt than most big-game fish; they are more plentiful, and destructive to nicer fish...
...BUMMEL is what Germans call al fresco funmaking. Below, with a half-consumed banana in his mouth, is Bruno Hauptmann, with some Hunter Island friends on a bummel. None of his circle was handier at collecting bits of driftwood, none could roast sausage nearer to a turn, none could play the mandolin or sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John...
...page of statistics Yet that is the none too tacit admission of H. A. A.'s antics last week. If it is true, then H. A. A. would be well advised to cease an annual worry, to abolish the "News," and to print, in its stead, a handier, cheaper cardboard scorecard. If it is not true, then there is small defence for an unhandsome and elaborate system of secrecy. This system has existed too long. It has been without reason save of the most obvious sort. If this weekend's news stories indicate anything, it is the butt of intelligent...