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The break that weather-bound U.S. pilots in the Aleutians had been praying for-some action-came last week. Up from steel-mat runways as far westward as the Andreanof Island group rose Liberator heavy bombers, Mitchell mediums and Lightning fighters, joyfully heading toward Kiska. On the first day they...
The Munich branch of the Reich Health Ministry last week added a "Department of Occultism." All fortunetellers, crystal-gazers, palm readers and sundry spiritualists will have to register so the Department may distinguish "dangerous forms of occultism with international connections" from those which may "be useful." In plain language, mediums...
The late, great prestidigitator Harry Houdini, famed foe of phony mediums, and his wife Beatrice agreed before his death to try to get in touch with each other afterwards. Gravely ill last week in Hollywood, his widow announced that she had not only given up trying but had her doubts...
> Advertisements are limited to five mediums: 1) newspapers and magazines; 2) unillustrated posters and show cards; 3) unillustrated films or movie slides; 4) radio (but commercial plugs must be officially O.K.'d in advance and no ad-libbing is permitted); 5) mail-order catalogues-which may not be sent...
All day the Army engineers, interrupted by enemy fire, had labored to lay rubber pontoons, then wood crosspieces, finally steel tracks just wide enough for the 28-ton General Grants. At dusk the light tanks had crept out of the woods and skipped across the oily Cumberland River on the...