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Thirteen months ago the New Republic was happy to tie itself to Henry Wallace's kite. New readers were invited to come along for the ride at a "special Henry Wallace rate" of $5 a year, and circulation more than doubled...
This week, as it became plain which way the wind was blowing, Publisher Michael Straight decided to fly his own kite. He announced that as Wallace will run for President (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he would personally step in as editor, with Wallace staying on as a contributor. "The paper," said Straight, "will be independent . . . [not] the organ of a third party...
...Kite Flying Resumed. Last spring Phibun entered Bangkok's municipal kite flying contest. To Siamese, this was a perfectly plain sign that he was coming out of political retirement. His personal astrologer, Chalaem, had found that Phibun's stars indicated rising power from March 26 onward. Phibun opened his pine-shaded bungalow in Bangkok's suburbs. There he told the press: "I was fed up with retirement, so I bought kites. But kite flying is not so interesting as politics. ... I am forming a new party with the slogan, 'Right Is Might...
...going insani. Besides, B.U. will be Gannon for us and using all their Giles to Hatch a plot and Turnan a victory. You're Stowart now, but before you're Stone drunk let me Ramacorti of rye down my throat and go Dwyer than a kite by saying. Harvard...
...first man to report seeing them was Kenneth Arnold, of Boise, Idaho. Arnold, a businessman, was flying near Washington's Mt. Rainier when nine saucerlike objects, noiseless and sunbright, came streaking over the Cascades at "1,200 miles an hour in formation, like the tail of a kite." Arnold said later: "I don't believe...