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Bald, icy-eyed Columnist Strunsky is the kind of newspaperman about whom no hit play or best-selling novel is likely to be written. He has never picked a lovenest lock, swiped a picture from a new widow, or solved a murder. Born in Russia and schooled in New York City from P.S. 77 through Columbia, he went to work as an editor of the New International Encyclopedia in 1900, aged 21. After six years he shifted to editorial writing for the New York Post, became its editor in 1920, moved on to the Times...
London's defense was triple-decked, but most of its details were under strong censorship lock. The system goes to work almost at the instant of the robot bomb's launching. The course of each missile is plotted, its flight checked...
Newspaper Renaissance. Pro-democratic Argentine newspapers had been lock-jawed Charley McCarthys. Now, the Government announced, they were free to publish what they pleased. La Prensa, La Nation and other anti-Axis papers promptly printed the full text of Secretary Hull's angry statement, or made thorough summaries of it. They followed this up by -publishing columns of sharp editorial comment from London, Washington, New York and various Latin American capitals...
...rudder and elevators sometimes lock tight, sometimes flap violently, as if buffeted by Niagaran rapids...
Their faces were daubed with red, black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon...