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...resigned a do-nothing job in the Navy in August 1941, but I did so to join the staff of the American Volunteer Group. . . . My service in the A.V.G. under General Chennault was the hardest and the most interesting work I have ever done. In late November 1941, General Chennault sent me to Manila to negotiate with General MacArthur. ... On my way back to Burma, I was caught in Hong Kong by the outbreak of war. During the fighting there, I placed myself under the command of our military observer, Colonel Reynolds Condon. When the surrender came, Colonel Condon instructed...
Meoe, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Men find it hard to read the true meaning of most things, but the hardest of all to read is the handwriting on the wall-which becomes legible to everybody only when the walls begin to totter and collapse. In mid-January, 1941, under the impact of Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under...
...railroad laborer to four terms in the Colorado Legislature, one term as Lieutenant Governor, two terms as Governor, and his present second term in the U.S. Senate. These attributes are what gave significance to the Chicago speech last week in which long rebellious Ed Johnson blasted Franklin Roosevelt hardest of any Democratic Senator...
...needle, or a part of one, is the hardest to find of any embedded foreign body-a surgeon once spent three hours locating a needle in a man's foot, though the X ray showed it clearly. So Dr. Alexander Edwin William Ada, of Manhattan, who had never heard of anyone's getting a needle out of a heart before, decided to use the pencil-like electronic metal detector invented by Subway Engineer Samuel Berman (TIME, Aug. 30). It had been used successfully on 22 Pearl Harbor wounds...
Some crack London correspondents only grudgingly admit that Fred Kuh is best in their craft; none will deny he is the hardest working. He never takes a day off. He has some 50 assorted sources he taps regularly by pedal work or phone. It has been said that the difference between a good reporter and a brilliant one is that the latter has known his sources more than 20 years. Kuh has been a correspondent in Europe most of 24 years. Says he: "At least one man I knew 24 years ago was then just above a male charwoman...