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...this year. Rollo Campbell in the half appears the most promising of the field, with Bill Young and Kay Rogers rating as capable milers. The longest distance will probably be run by Bob Kent along with Langdon Burwell if the doctors consider him sufficiently recovered from his vacation skiing mishap...
With this idea, Du Pont formed A.A.A. and in May 1939 landed the first Post Office contract for pick-up airmail service. He has been snagging pouches ever since. His A.A.A. has flown more than 900,000 revenue miles, completed 91.6% of its schedules, had only one minor mishap (a plane nosed over in a snow-covered field). He serves towns as small as Glenville, West Va., pop. 588, as large as Wilmington...
...last is typical of the kind of mishap which occurs under voluntary censorship such as Secretary Knox has tried to invoke on naval matters. Voluntary censorship always looks best to begin with because it has the political advantage of not seeming to be censorship at all. In the U.S. where it can be backed up by the penalties imposed for revealing "secret," "confidential" or "restricted" information such censorship could be very severe. So if a newsman were to play safe he would either print only handouts or submit his copy in advance of publication for editing by Government officials...
...different nature. Possibly an internal explosion-sabotage, if you will-such as a boiler explosion; the power is sufficient. Or perhaps a collision with another ship: in the darkness somebody zigged when he should have zagged. In either case an alert British propagandist could make excellent capital of the mishap-with a rigid and sympathetic censorship holding up the news until the collective stories should hang together fairly well...
Last week at the Hotel Continental, where the French Information Ministry is now installed, a bureaucratic mishap befell New Minister of Information Louis Frossard. He was not let into his own Ministry until the meticulous Republican Guard officer on duty, who from the first had recognized M. Frossard, wrote him out a temporary laissez passer for that day only, warned the Minister that he would not be admitted again unless he carried a proper pass bearing his photograph, stamped and signed...