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This week, on July 7, the Japanese celebrated the anniversary of their attack on China. China's millions, soldiers and civilians, who for five years have fought off Japan with limitless heroism, did not celebrate it. The Chinese heard the word anniversary with a sense of desperation. This was China on July...
...World War I (see cut). Sascha de Seversky is now a columnist and author who designed and manufactured military aircraft in the U.S. before he turned to writing. Into a new book, Victory Through Air Power (Simon & Schuster; $2.50), he has crammed much knowledge, enthusiasm, bitterness, and a limitless faith in the airplane. The result is a blast of gusty. prophetic criticism - the kind of criticism which frequently overlooks qualifying facts, but is heard all too seldom in a country...
Headache is not a disease but a symptom. Like a heavy hammer beating on the temples, headache plays a chorus to an almost limitless number of ailments, can be caused by infections, high blood pressure, bad ventilation, brain concussion, intoxication. Last week, at New York's Academy of Medicine, authorities on headaches discussed recent research...
This other Dona (whom thousands of Miss du Maurier's readers know as "the real me,") knew that "life need not be bitter, nor worthless, nor bounded by a narrow casement, but could be limitless, infinite-that it meant suffering, and love, and danger, and sweetness, and more than this even, much more." How much more, Miss du Maurier wisely neglects to say; but she does bring on, as Dona's lover, the one sort of man who could conceivably supply it: a Frenchman (They Understand Love). He is a philosophical pirate, as tired of the world...
Said he: "You must remember that while targets for bombing are almost limitless, bombers are limited and precious. ... Oil fields are scattered and the harm likely to be done by bombing is problematical. . . . The idea that any British capital invested abroad would have the slightest effect upon the decisions taken by the air force is utterly fantastic...