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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moslems and Hindus of many castes, divided amongst themselves, in chronic ferment against the British Raj and all that the Viceroy represents. Lord Wavell had followed monolithic Lord Linlithgow, the outgoing and unregretted 18th Viceroy, into office at a time when the Raj was at its lowest point yet in both Indian and British esteem. Many of India's millions, ordinarily unstirred by and unaware of the political issues which engross the articulate minority, felt in their bellies a failure of the Raj. They were starving...
Because the three professionals beat the contestants' jokes about 75% of the time, their show has probably the lowest sponsor payoff of any program on the air. Advised that this might kill the program, Senator Ford observed: "We're hammy enough to want to win all the time." The Senator, who thought up the show and owns it, claims that no new jokes have been sent in. He is not surprised. He and his colleagues spend most of their time modernizing old wheezes. Last week Laurie was at work on the oldest of all. He had the first...
...what some sportswriters called the pitcher-of-the-year, a tall, broad-shouldered right-hander named Spud Chandler, who retired 14 men in a row against Detroit. First American Leaguer to win 20 games this year, he had an earned-run average of 1.69, the league's lowest since Walter Johnson...
...South Pacific U.S. fighter forces fly patrols with several types of aircraft. Army pilots may fly top cover in Lightnings. Several thousand feet below them ride the Warhawks. Lowest of all will be the Marine flyers in Wildcats. In a situation like that, it is possible for the Wildcats to get into a lively fight without the Lightnings knowing a thing about it. Air Force this month reports the nickname, half-scornful, half-wistful, that the Marines have pinned on the lordly P-38: "A high-altitude foxhole...
...Clouds have general upper and lower limits†: in middle latitudes the highest clouds are six or seven miles above sea level (because air gets no colder above that height); the lowest (except for fogs) are at about 2,000 ft. In thickness, a cloud may vary from a wafer (cirrus) to several miles (cumulonimbus...