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Perched on orange-colored canvas chairs atop fern-scented Mount Ammouda, smiling King Paul of the Hellenes, grim U.S. General James Van Fleet and several Greek army commanders awaited the signal for the attack. At daybreak, newly arrived U.S.-made Helldivers cut across the pale blue sky to unload their cargo of Napalm fire bombs. In a few minutes, the sleepy purple mountains seemed ablaze. At week's end, King Paul and his party could celebrate a smashing victory...
...free-for-all of ricocheting bullets, cold-blooded criminals and implacable law enforcers, played host last week to a mild-mannered youth. In the midst of its bimonthly gallery of firebugs, homicidal maniacs, fight fixers, railroad wreckers, waterfront thugs and redblooded, straight-shooting minions of the law stood a pale blond youth named Buzzy. He was there to advise action-loving gangbuster fans not to join the ever-growing band of "stayouts" who decide each year that seeking their fortune in the world is more exciting than completing their public-school education...
Mystic Meditations. He describes the praying mantis, "or, as they say in Provence, lou Prégo Diéou, the Pray-to-God," with keen observation and lively imagination. "Her long pale green wings, like spreading veils, her head raised heavenwards, her folded arms, crossed upon her breast, are in fact a sort of travesty of a nun in ecstasy." The travesty is complete when the mantis makes her kill: "With the sharpness of a spring, the toothed forearm folds back on the toothed upper arm; and the insect is caught between the blades of the double saw . . . Thereupon...
Aboard an airliner winging its bumpy way over Texas one day in 1941, the pale-faced little stewardess felt too sick to serve dinner. Hustling, bustling Passenger James Kirby Dobbs, then joint owner of 46 food shops scattered through twelve states and an old hand at doing things for himself, quickly volunteered to serve. But one look at the unpalatable food made Dobbs queasy himself. Then & there he decided that he could put up better meals to serve aloft than the airlines...
...Giorgio Morandi, considered by some Italian critics as Italy's best living painter. Morandi's specialty is bottles, preferably empty bottles. He has been arranging them on tables in his dusty Bologna studio for most of his 59 years, painting them as undramatically as he can, in pale, dry colors. The show contained examples of his endless variety: bottles grouped like ballet dancers, like factory chimneys, or just like bottles...