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...week's big day belonged to the aces. Back in harness was Major James Jabara, who became the first jet ace in 1951, to shoot down his 13th and 14th MIGs. Colonel James Johnson, 37-year-old commander of the Fourth Fighter-Interceptor Wing, destroyed his tenth. Another oldster, Lieut. Colonel Vermont Garrison, 37, who shot down eleven Nazi planes in World War II, got his ninth MIG the same day. Among the younger aces who added to their scores was Captain Ralph Parr, 28, who flew 165 fighter-bomber missions on his first Korean tour in 1951. Said...
...little Londoner when Carlyle was living higher up the river, and . . . was reading Stevenson when his early tales were appearing serially." But Tomlinson's hankering for the past is not merely an exercise of simple sentiment. To be sure, there is the oldster's yearning for ocean voyages when ships were without radio (On Being Out of Date), for the days when "old whisky aboard was half a crown a bottle, and the best tobacco I have ever smoked-you cannot get it now, even in Piccadilly-was three shillings a pound. Somehow we managed. We pulled through...
...beads strung on A Mingled Yarn are not an oldster's complaints. There are fine descriptive sketches of far places, in which exact description and smoldering imagination are firmly wedded. There are moving tributes to the British character, a splendid essay on a family pet (A Brown Owl) which once stared down Thomas Hardy. This is a book to remind readers of any age of the rich resources of written English. If nothing else, Author Tomlinson proves that the informal essay, that sad casualty of modern literature, can be as effective as a heart-to-heart talk...
...Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie refectory last week, a crotchety oldster scraped with a surgeon's knife at one of the world's greatest paintings and muttered in annoyance as the tourists clustered around. To the spectators, his knife-wielding seemed the final indignity to the remains of Leonardo da Vinci's famed Last Supper, sorely damaged by 400 years of weather and bungling restorers. Professor Mauro Pelliccioli, 65, knows better. Next month Italy's No. 1 art restorer will finish up his work on the 15th century masterpiece, and one government official...
...Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood) is 33 years old-a bearded oldster among thrillers. But though it does its hissing through false teeth and glares from a glass eye, it is still strangely animate-a good deal of a mess, but only now & then a bore...