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...Iron Mistress (Warner) is a dull-edged western about Frontiersman James Bowie (Alan Ladd) and his famous knife. According to this Technicolored biography, the Bowie knife-i.e., the iron mistress-was forged out of steel into which was fused the fragment of a meteor ("For better or worse, the knife has a bit of heaven in it-or a bit of hell," says one of the characters). So miraculously keen and deadly is this weapon that with it Bowie can kill off any number of his enemies-when he is not demolishing them, that is, with pistols, sword...
...Pyongyang targets. The planes were flown by U.S., British, South African, Australian and South Korean pilots; some were from carriers, including Britain's Ocean. They dropped 700 tons of bombs, thousands of gallons of napalm, left their targets blasted and burning. More than 100 U.S. Sabre and Australian Meteor jets flew top cover, drove off the few MIGs that tried to interfere. Only one plane-a Thunderjet-was lost to Pyongyang's formidable flak...
...waxing plump and still bachelors, were made air vice-marshals.* David took his jet fighter squadron to Suez to guard the Empire's lifeline; Dick took charge of the air defense of Britain's Midland counties. Last week Air Vice-Marshal David, now 48, climbed in his Meteor jet and took off for Cyprus, about 300 miles away. Somewhere in the airforce-blue waters of the peaceful Mediterranean, he crashed and drowned, leaving Air Vice-Marshal Dick to go it alone...
...only flying saucers which Menzel's theory does not explain are the green fireballs that have been reported with extraordinary frequency in the Southwest. But Menzel does not take them very seriously. In clear-aired New Mexico and Arizona, he says, meteors are seen oftener than in cloudier places. According to Menzel's colleague, Meteor Expert Fred Whipple, they often look green because of vaporized magnesium from their stony material...
...Odets, himself a repentant ex-Communist, came in, looked down, turned away to bury his face in his hands. Out in the street two men began slugging each other; one of them, someone reported, had called Garfield a Communist. But Jules Garfinkle was past caring. "He came like a meteor." said Rabbi Louis Newman at the Reformed Hebrew service, "and like a meteor he departed...