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...successful the R.A.F. offensive against Germany is in keeping the German air force away from Russia is anybody's guess. But one reasonably informed guesstimate came last week from Peter Masefield, aviation expert of the London Sunday Times. He calculates that more than two-thirds of Hermann Göring's battlers are being held in Europe and Africa to fight off the British. His guess at the disposition of Nazi air strength...
...Masefield estimates the Rumanian-German air fleet in the Balkans at 200; thinks the Luftwaffe has 1,600 on the Russian Front...
Henry Hazlitt was the only juryman to name Joyce's Ulysses. John Kieran, who appeared to miss the point, named as "books that I prize most" the works of Masefield, W. H. Hudson, Rostand...
...most notable autobiography was that of the Indian Nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru ($4); the most engaging was John Masefield's In The Mill ($2); and for those interested there was Editor in Politics ($3.50), second volume in Josephus Daniels' cracker-box marathon of total recall. Henry Mencken (Newspaper Days) also continued his memoirs...
This week Poet Laureate John Masefield honored Against the Storm by taking part in it. Short-waved in from London, he responded to a greeting by the program's fictional professor, greeted his old American friend, Billy Booth (TIME, Aug. 11), and read some poems...