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Sincerely, from the bottom of his compromising heart, Harrison Spangler felt that G.O.P. should not engage in fights, speak bluntly or do anything positive. He had called the Post-War Advisory Council to Mackinac to draft a program. The Council, thought Harrison Spangler, was an expertly hand-picked group. Ob streperous characters, like Wendell Willkie, had not been invited...
Both these books are deep-felt, enthusiastic studies of men and machines in battle; both are written by trained, ob servant storytellers. "Flying Officer X" is H. E. Bates, one of Britain's most talented short-story writers (The Poacher, My Uncle Silas). His sketches of life in the R.A.F. are the result of an assignment to Britain's Bomber Command. C. S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower, Riflleman Dodd and The Gun, TIME, March 29), the British Navy's most passionate booster, spent several weeks on a British warship before sitting down to write his story...
...Ob jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case...
...while, closes ranks after he steps up to the microphone. Besides their manual and pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most popular songs are Samson, Noah, Job, Jonah, Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho, and a secular number-The Preacher and the Bear-with an old snapper: Now Lord-if you can't help me, for goodness sake, don't you help that bear...
...enables airplanes to keep a continuous record of their altitude. But, long before there were any ships, planes or men, bats invented the same system for blind flying. Able both to produce and to hear supersonic sounds, they utter a steady, staccato stream of supersonic squeaks, keep away from ob-tacles from which echoes bounce back. Thus they can fly through intricate mazes in the dark...