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...feet long (minus its explosive head), six to seven feet in diameter at the middle, tapered at head and tail; it has a four-foot compartment filled with radio dials and gadgets by which its flight is directed. The methodical Germans had carefully packed a twelve-page manual of instructions with each giant rocket...
Nevertheless, the Boz's roommate, Ned Bailey, says that we should note how well Boz did in his Disbursing recitation; but that's only because he took the Manual and Memo home with him on leave--Ned saw him packing them. Now Ned says that even when he, Bailey, works his normal 23 hours a day he can't keep up with his roommate in this course...
...viol), a viole de gambe (six-stringed forerunner of the cello), a viole d'amour (whose seven steel strings vibrate in "sympathy" as the seven gut strings are played), a basse de viole (big forerunner of the stringed bass). He commissioned Pleyel of Paris to make a two-manual, six-pedal harpsichord...
...manual was worked out by U.S.O. Music Division Chief Raymond Kendall, with Houghton Mifflin's William Spaulding. It is to be used in connection with nine recordings of popular barbershop numbers. At first the record plays a selection emphasizing the lead, tenor and bass successively, to give the G.I. student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat...
...edition, at $15 a copy. This year's voracious appetite for romance brought its revival as a Ladies' Home Journal serial, and in a trade edition with a $10,000 promotion campaign by Publisher Holt. It reads like a blend of Black Beauty, The Stockbreeder's Manual and The Three Musketeers...