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...England, waiting for the invasion, Walton lived and flew for months with the men of our Eighth Air Force-and the first time he saw Paris he was "shaking like an aspen" in the nose of the Flying Fortress Georgia Peach in the celebrated Bastille Day bombing. "Ahead of us Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitts dived and rolled, spitting lead, and bursting flak made black puffballs all around...
...author of the article insists on calling "goofus feathers" "goofer feathers," let's at least give credit to the originators of the name for peach fuzz. They were the famous (or should I say-more famous) team of McIntyre & Heath, whom I presume Moran & Mack tried to imitate...
Grandmother Sophia Jane had raised eleven children. "She wore a stiffly starched white chambray bonnet, with a round crown buttoned on a narrow brim." When the cling-peach tree bloomed in her Kentucky garden, she mused: "I have planted five orchards in three States, and now I see only one tree in bloom." Her numerous descendants and her aged servants thought she was the most wonderful, most terrifyingly efficient person alive...
...soon as a serious-minded manufacturer, Food Machinery Corp. of San Jose, Calif., can convert from war to peacetime products, the steady production of goofer feathers will become a main feature of a new U.S. industry. Food Machinery Corp. has designed and plans to market a peach de-fuzzing machine. The fuzz from the peaches, wafted by compressed air through a vent in the top of the machine, will become goofer feathers (to be thrown away). But the de-fuzzed peaches are expected to sell at a premium of $1 a box. (Cost of de-fuzzing...
...scooped C.E.D.-the Falstaffian treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co. had bluntly said it first in July (TIME, Aug. 7). Ruml had also stated that high corporate taxes were more harmful to employment than high individual levies. But C.E.D. did not care that a little bloom was off its peach...