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...expected the U.S. Government to grant De Gaulle & Co. outright recognition. But Algiers was optimistic, hopeful that le grand Charlie and Franklin Roosevelt would get along far better in Washington, than they did last year in Casablanca. Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage...
...launched like a big rocket from frames or catapult installations in the Pas-de-Calais area, nearest to England across the Channel. The bomb is driven by a cleverly designed jet propulsion engine built on above its tail (see cut) which sucks in air, mingles it with fuel, explodes the mixture and drives the whole assembly along with a rapid, continuous series of jet thrusts...
...Home Secretary Herbert S. Morrison told the House of Commons that countermeasures were being taken against the robots and that no exaggerated importance would be attached to them. Visible countermeasures: 1) a heavy flak barrage to explode the bombs in air; 2) more heavy and concentrated bombing against the Pas-de-Calais district; 3) Spitfire patrols which shoot many of Goebbels' gismos into the Channel...
...songs") to her pet dogs and cat. She took lessons in composition from Benjamin Godard. Always a facile melodist, Chaminade soon rolled up a list of over 550 compositions, which stand in the same relation to Frederic Chopin as strawberry soda does to cognac. Many of them (The Flatterer, Pas des Amphores, La Zingara, Valse Caprice, Air de Ballet, etc.) got an international reputation...
Ladies Courageous comes in on a shattered wing and an unanswered prayer, noses over, and spills out a motley set of WAFS (see cut, p. 94) who later become WASPS. This whole covey of highly burnished cinemactresses looks more like Wam-pas cuties than like aeronauts. Judging by their actions, they cannot be trusted to pilot a perambulator, much less...