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Washington Peace. For President, Mrs. Ellen Linea W. Jensen, 50-year-old Miami grandmother and astrologist who claims to be in close communion with George Washington "on the other side"; for Vice President, a man whose identity Mrs. Jensen doesn't feel free to reveal. Candidate Jensen, who says she was a "Himalayan Master" in a previous incarnation, promises to stamp out Communism "within nine minutes" of her inauguration. Though her party is "very loosely organized" and has only "a bare possibility" of getting on the ballot in Texas and Washington, Mrs. Jensen believes she is a shoo...
...champions: "I got the best outfield in the business . . . I'm five deep ... No other club's got more than two . . . What's the matter with Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling? Nothing! They could play for any team. I got those three kids [Mickey Mantle, Jackie Jensen and Bob Cerv]. They can hit; they can run; they can throw...
...second and best part, "The Gentlemen Killers," focuses on World War I. "For a short time," writes Jensen, "a rather warped form of chivalry existed which made it poor form to fire on an opponent whose guns or engine were not functioning properly." The German ace, Ernst Udet, remembers how his French peer, Georges Guynemer, refused to fire when Udet's guns jammed. And Floyd Gibbons vibrates excitedly over the death of the greatest German ace of World War I, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
Somewhat surprisingly, the stories about World War II flying make dull reading, perhaps because aerial combat had become so formalized that one account seems pretty much like another. But Editor Jensen has dug up two first-rate items for his closing sections. Someone Like You is a poignant sketch of battle fear by Roald Dahl, a onetime R.A.F. pilot. And in The Three Secrets of Flight, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a onetime test-pilot, offers a superbly lucid discussion of the psychological adjustments men must make to survive...