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Most automobiles made ,in the U.S. today are sleek, comfortable and mechanically dependable. Few people ask for more. But there is a small, hard knot of car cultists who would not be caught behind the wheel of a shiny Detroit model '52. One of these is Ken W. Purdy, editor of True, a magazine that specializes in vicarious thrills for the fireside heman. Purdy began fooling around with vintage and foreign cars in 1946, when new American cars were hard...
...trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry-go, patrols, digging; digging, patrols, sentry-go. On every hilltop, Fascist or Loyalist, a knot of ragged, dirty men shivering round their flag and trying to keep warm. And all day and night the meaningless bullets wandering across the empty valleys and only by some rare improbable chance getting home on a human body...
When TIME printed a letter from a reader extolling the merits of the Windsor knot for neckties (TIME, March 3), the editors thought a note should be added to explain how the knot is tied. After struggling to condense the explanation into a short paragraph (right hand over the left hand, etc.), they gave it up as a bad job, recommended that interested readers write to the Men's Tie Foundation in New York City for diagrams...
Apparently a large number of readers, struggling with their own necktie problems, were interested. The foundation, according to Mrs. Charlotte Thompson, executive director, has received thousands of letters-asking how to tie four-in-hand and bow knots, as well as Windsors. Unequipped to handle such a volume of mail, the foundation has recruited the help of seven tie manufacturers. And Mrs. Thompson is more convinced than ever that "fewer than 20% of the men in this country know how to tie a knot correctly...
Like the Wasp (the second carrier* and seventh U.S. naval vessel to bear the name), the 37-knot Hobson was a veteran of many a sea battle of World War II. She was racing along off the carrier's port quarter on "plane guard"-ready for rescue work in case a flyer missed his landing and crashed. Under the impact of the collision the Hobson sank almost instantly, with many of her complement of 14 officers and 223 men asleep or helpless below. Amid a glare of searchlights, the carrier's crew began rescue operations. Other destroyers raced...