Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough, cigar-chomping Lieut. General Curtis LeMay, who succeeded Kenney as head of the Strategic Air Command, went even further. He did not argue that the B-36 was invulnerable to opposition; Bomber LeMay knew only too well that any aircraft can be knocked down. But, said LeMay, "I don't think the question whether it can be shot down enters in-it's whether you can penetrate to and destroy a target with acceptable losses . . . If called on to fight, I'll order out the B-36 crews and be in the first plane myself...
Last week sallow, bigheaded Robert G. Thompson, New York State chairman and a member of the Communist national committee, took the stand and promptly ran afoul of the new Medina. Thompson had been head of Ohio's Young Communist League from 1938 to 1941. Had he ever used the party slogan: "The Yanks are not coming?" Thompson was vague: "Very possibly ... in all probability . . . it would have been consistent with policy at that time ..." Judge Medina broke in impatiently: "That's a regular formula. It's maybe this, and maybe that, or I may have...
Long-Distance Calls. Maxim, a squat, balding little man, is listed in the official registry of landlocked San Marino as head of a shipping firm. He moved in a year and a half ago, lives quietly with his mistress in a rented stone bungalow. He wears yellow velvet gloves, talks more on the long-distance telephone than anyone else in the republic. From the Convent of St. Francis, Maxim has been seen slipping into the Communist casino's back door. A black-bearded monk summed up the general suspicion. "Here in San Marino," he said, "there exists Bolshevism...
...crossed themselves reverently and gave thanks to To Thavma Tis Panagheias (the Miracle of the Virgin), which they thanked for their liberation. U.S. officers predicted that summer's end would see Greece free of all organized guerrilla warfare. On the Vitsi front, Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, head of the U.S. military mission, said: "This is the beginning...
...ranch boy's dream come true 5,000 miles from home. In 1912, when Fight Promoter Tex Rickard advertised that he needed cowhands for a Paraguayan ranching venture, young Lohman went south. Rickard soon quit but Lohman, with a $1,000 stake from Rickard, stayed. He bought 600 head of cattle and 50,000 acres, and started ranching at Red Wells, no miles west of Concepci...