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Before dawn one morning last week a bomber of the Royal Air Force glided in over the Stavanger airport, only big field in craggy Norway's west. Down went a magnesium flare and, in a few moments, up in a great bang and blaze went chunks of concrete runways, hangars and transport planes. For 80 minutes an undetermined number of ships of the British Fleet several miles off shore hurled an infernal amount of steel and high explosive onto the Stavanger field, while Allied bombers attacked at Trondheim to ground Nazi planes there. The British ships got away before...
...genuine literary interest as well. A writer's scraps often reveal him better than his letters or his journals; and Mansfield is here revealed in her grievous living, in her streaks of curious repellence, and in her unique, luminous perceptions. Since her perceptions often had the instantaneousness of magnesium-powder flashes, some of her brief entries contain some of her best work...
...advantage which Dr. Fellers claims for his blue crabs is that "struvite" (harmless crystals of magnesium ammonium phosphate which occur in nearly all canned fish products) is not found in eastern crabmeat. Many fish packers are troubled by struvite lawsuits, for their customers crunch the crystals between their teeth, think they have been chewing glass...
...Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing magnesium flash powder were being slipped under goods counters of the stores just before closing time. When the acid ate through the balloon, the magnesium would ignite and set the store on fire...
Last week Broker Ferebee made good his boast (and incidentally won from Broker Tuerk $9,000 earmarked for paying off the mortgage on the plantation). On the home green of Long Island's Salisbury Country Club at 10:30 one evening, under the eerie glare of magnesium flares, Golfer Ferebee completed his two-a-day transcontinental jaunt. For four days, while the majority of U. S. golfers stuck to their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia...