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...picked reinforcements soon to come, he boarded his Constellation for Indo-China. As he flew over India, the news from IndoChina was bad: the Reds had come close enough to cut the Haiphong water supply. De Lattre ordered his pilot to fly direct to Haiphong, but the same crachin mist which was giving cover to the Communists prevented the big Constellation from landing. De Lattre landed at Saigon, rode a light plane back to Haiphong, took charge of the battle...
...always ready; their engines need no warming up. The crews are waiting, too, close to the waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...
...triumphant old age, Turner took into his province such formless things as snow, wind, mist and sunlight, painted them with a radiance that has not yet been surpassed. As a young art critic, John Ruskin saw their greatness, but most of Turner's fellow academicians did not. Because Turner dared paint sunsets as they really look, and because toward the end he cared not a hoot for composition, he was accused of tastelessness. He still is, but good taste remains a refuge of minor artists, one Turner had no need...
Parliament reconvened in somber mood last week after a five-week recess. A dark, lowering sky turned afternoon into night, and a damp mist crept into the House of Commons. M.P.s had plenty to worry about-a coal shortage, a meat shortage, the shock of rearmament on Britain's bareboned economy. But one urgent question overshadowed the others...
...Treasury of Immortal Performances (Victor; 6 vols. 45 r.p.m.). To match Caruso, Paderewski and Kreisler in its classical Treasury series, Victor has combed its old jazz and pop files, reissued such collector's items as Fats Waller's Honeysuckle Rose, Bunny Berigan's In a Mist, Benny Goodman's Goodbye...