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Laurence Olivier & wife Vivien Leigh hopped home to England from Manhattan -in fits & starts. First stop: Windham, Conn., where their giant four-motored Constellation, minus a motor dropped on the Connecticut countryside, was skillfully crash-landed in a 3,000-foot belly-skid. Declared Olivier: ". . . None of us was frightened at all." Seven hours later, 41 of the 42 passengers-all but a thoughtful Catholic priest-tried it again in another plane, and made...
Nary a Hitch. In Seattle, C. W. Johnson made thorough preparation for a motor trip, rigged two lifelike dummies in his car to discourage hitchhikers...
...Industry" struck many a responsive chord. Aside from those of you who wanted to be reassured that TIME hadn't been taken in, we received the customary complaints about using too much technical jargon for the layman, observations such as "My husband says it sounds like a new motor; I say it sounds like a dictionary that has been struck by lightning"; suggestions that it "might have come out of the mouth of Danny Kaye," and plaintive queries like: "Is this good?" Wrote one bemused U.S. Navyman: "It'sh poshible...
...British secretary quartered at the U.S. "Girls' Town" (quarters for clerks and stenographers et al.): "When I get up I usually find two American lieutenants shaving in the girls' bathroom." With warmer weather, blanket outings have become more frequent. Only officers can take jeeps from the motor pools after hours, and they drive off with their Fraulein to secluded spots...
...World War I he served two years with the Spahis Algeriens, then served with the Belgian War Purchasing Commission in London. (To do so, he learned English in 15 days.) After that he served on a dozen government missions, became vice president of the Ford Motor Co. of Belgium and, in 1939, Belgium's Finance Minister. When Belgium fell, he was the first Minister to arrive in London, just before the heavy air raids started. By that time he held the portfolios of finance, war, navy, economic affairs in the government-in-exile...