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...always knew the British fliers were tough babies. . . . But I never fully realized quite how tough they were until the other afternoon when I was out on a British airdrome. There was a low, overcast sky. A plane broke through the clouds. The British anti-aircraft artillery went after it hammer and tongs. It was clear to me that it was a British Spitfire, but it was not clear to them. They shot at it with machine guns until it was on the ground, and continued shooting as it taxied up. The plane taxied up to the line...
...after Coventry, it was London's turn again and the most massive night at 20 tack yet launched upon the capital poured down another five or six hundred tons of death. Only a providential overcast prevented this happening to London two nights in a row. Although London's antiaircraft defense is far heavier than any other British city's, Luftwaffe was apparently ordered and geared to shoot the works...
...cannot be left inside, nor can it be removed. So Sidney Smith makes his rods of sugar in sizes to fit all types of blood vessels. Coated with a thin film of bland oil, the rod stiffens the vein or artery while a surgeon mends the break with overcast stitches. Clamps cut off the supply of blood during the stitching. Then the clamps are removed and in ten to 15 seconds, the warm blood melts the sugar and circulation proceeds normally...
...with the U. S. Painters like Grant Wood use a clear sauce distilled from 14th-Century Italian primitives. Painters like Thomas Benton use their own highly flavored, homemade ketchup. One painter who presents the U. S. scene without trimmings is Minnesota-born Arnold Blanch, 26 of whose bleak, overcast landscapes and figure-paintings drew Manhattan's gallerygoers last week to the Associated American Artists' Galleries...
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