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Same time that Sir Andrew's fleet swept the Eastern Mediterranean, from Gibraltar toward Sicily swept the Mediterranean battle squadron of the west, including the 42,100-ton Hood and the much-exercised aircraft carrier Ark Royal. They found no Italian warships at large but south of the Balearics they were attacked by swarms of Italian bombers, of which they shot down four, damaged three. Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville, hero of Dukirk and Oran, reported his ships unscathed, and Spanish observers who saw them return to Gibraltar after two days at sea made no mention of visible...
...Samuel Hood Dolbear, globe-trotting mining engineer. His job: chromium specialist...
...Ormandy announced that, for the opening of the orchestra's summer season at Robin Hood Dell in Fairmount Park, the Pennsylvania National Guard had agreed to supply three 37-mm. anti-tank guns. The local musicians' union demanded that, since cannon are included in Tschaikowsky's score, a union man be hired to shoot them. Very well, replied the Dell management. But the orchestra wished to select a performer "who can play the cannon with due regard to its musical value." So there would be an audition for percussion men who wanted the job of "Symphony Bombardier...
Even more impressive than the art were the spectacular views from Maryhill's windows of eastern Oregon, the Columbia gorge, Mount Hood and the Cascade Mountains. One hundred miles from Portland, Ore., Roadbuilder Hill's castle can be approached only over the fine winding Northwestern highways he himself helped construct, is probably the world's most isolated art museum...
...usual all refreshments to the Yardlings will be free, 3000 cigarettes, tobacco, and pipes from Leavitt and Pierce and Chesterfield, ice cream from Hood's and drinks supplied by Coca Cola, and Pepsi-Cola, will be distributed after the show...