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...roared an R.A.F. rival. "I think the time can be brought down to near enough 40 minutes." That it was. At the end, R.A.F. Squadron Leader Charles Maughan, 35, got the last bit of ground speed from the motorcycle-helicopter system, picked up precious minutes by flying a transonic Hawker Hunter jet on the long cross-Channel air leg. His winning time...
Bill Bailey ought to know. Born in 1886, the son of a patent-medicine hawker, he learned song-and-dance routines to help sell the family product: Bailey's Gypsy Liniment. At 120-proof, the stuff worked like magic. Later, in vaudeville, Bill hoofed up with a singer named Dave Hodges, who changed his name to Barnum so the pair could work their way around the country as Bailey & Barnum. They were a sort of circus minimus until a Manhattan impresario gave them a five-minute spot in Fred and Adele Astaire's Lady, Be Good. The playbill...
When a TV hawker tells the public to buy a new wonder pill, millions of Americans believe him and go buy-buy-buy. However, when a renowned scientist tells us that fallout danger from a bomb is less than living a normal life in Denver-these same millions disbelieve...
...because this is a spoof of the strict and stuffy, the step-by-steppers and the serious-takers of life. Author Dhôtel winds up his ramble with the mocking hawker's chant of Gaspard's papa: "Step up here sir; don't be afraid of life. Don't take one tie; don't take ten, take twenty, and have one to your taste every morning of your life! And hear this, hear this, the most necessary and inevitable purchase of all your days, for the picayune supplementary cost of sixty-five francs, this...
Already the new Macmillan government has reduced the annual army re serve call-up by 120,000, disbanded R.A.F. and naval air reserve squadrons of "weekend flyers," and canceled orders for 100 new Hawker Hunter jet fighters (for the nation that pioneered the jet, postwar plane development has been a continuing disappointment: the Hunter is becoming obsolete just as its bugs are being eliminated, and one of Britain's top aircraft designers declared recently that the eight-jet Boeing B-52 is "five years ahead of any bomber we have...