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...second attack opened when fleet units and the R.A.F. shelled and bombed three key points along Madagascar's irregular western shore. Under cover of Navy guns, landing parties were soon ashore driving toward Morondava, Majunga and Ambanja, which fell with little opposition. A few days later British forces were well on the road to Tananarive, this time to mop up Madagascar for good...
There were no food shortages last week, except Irish potatoes, but irregular ship arrivals produce temporary gluts and shortages. Last week housewives were urged to stock up on canned goods; hamburger was too plentiful because prosperous workers bought choicer cuts of meat...
Strange to U.S. ears are the songs Bela Bartok listens to. The 300 discs of love songs, recorded in wild, mountainous Herzegovina, have irregular, formless lines, queer vocal embellishments. Stranger still are the heroic songs, long, rambling tales of adventure and battle (the longest takes twelve hours to sing; many are several thousand lines long). They are chanted to a singsong type of melody, half speech, half music, whose short phrases are repeated with endless monotony. Under the voice runs a twanging countermelody, plucked out on the one-stringed gusla...
...nearby Beacon Hill. Out of the modest proceeds of a box-office that depends on playgoer contributions (50c minimum) come first, production expenses and second, food for the Company; salaries are largely wishful thinking. "Which means," says Norman Mailer '43, in charge of publicity, "our diet is somewhat irregular...
Today at 56 General Arnold still flies. But the irregular helmet burn has faded from his ruddy face and he seldom gets into a pursuit ship. His mount is the big bomber, which he insisted on developing in the U.S. when the minds of British airmen were on fighters. And he always takes along his lanky aide, Colonel Eugene Beebe, as copilot, for Hap Arnold's theory is that old fellows tire out and may need help at the end of a long flight. So far Colonel Beebe has found nothing to substantiate the boss's theory...