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...Louder in the ears of the Italians was the ominous roar and rattle of the Allied military machine in North Africa. Virtually splitting their eardrums were the scream and crump of "blockbuster" bombs devastating the great industrial cities of Turin, Genoa, Milan...
...some years now elephantine Pan American Airways has been trying to slap down a persistent gadfly, New Zealand-born, onetime barnstormer, Lowell Yerex. But all that the slapping has accomplished so far is to make Yerex, founder and president of TACA (Transportes Aereos Centre Americanos), fly more and buzz louder (TIME, Sept. 28). Last week the buzzes crescendoed before a hearing of the Civil Aeronautics Board when Yerex appeared to ask for a license to fly scheduled routes in what Pan Am considers its exclusive territory-the Caribbean...
...following Machiavelli's preachment: "He who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty. . . ." In France last week the sound of the watchword was growing louder...
...engines roar louder. Behind us our peashooters are attacked by Zeroes and new I-97s I see six go at Sawyer. He makes a head-on run at the leader, pours in a couple of bursts. The I-97, camouflaged with bright green paint, falls away in smoke. Five others do a quick flip to get on Charlie's tail, but he dives and pulls rapidly away and then comes up again on the corner of our tails...
Occasionally a lion roared; silver-haired Tenor Giovanni Martinelli roared louder. The summer opera season in Cincinnati's Zoo (with Ponchielli's 66-year-old La Gioconda) was on. Except for four operatic finds, it was much like other seasons. The four finds (chosen from 3,000 operatic aspirants recruited through nationwide radio auditions): Nan Merriman, a dimpled, 22-year-old brunette from California, who made her debut disguised in the stage wrinkles of old La Cieca in La Gioconda; Dorothy Ann Short, a 19-year-old University of Washington coed; Max Condon, a six-foot-two tenor...