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Fortress. In return for Ruckman's wrist watch and fountain pen, a Russian major lent them a truck to carry the salvaged parts back to Torun airstrip. To get the salvaged engine into place, Ruckman traded his own, non-G.I. revolver for the use of a hoist. By mid-March, Star Dust was able to limp to Italy, then back to England, where Ruckman rejoined his outfit and flew ten more missions, eight of them in Star Dust...
...Louis Browns plucked at Manager Marty Marion's sleeve. "I'm not a bullpen pitcher," "Bobo" Holloman would say. "I'm a starting pitcher. Give me a chance." Manager Marion just kept shaking his head. Two or three times, Bobo was called in from the bull pen to do a little relief pitching. But the big (205 Ibs., 6 ft. 2 in.), 27-year-old righthander was not very impressive: ten hits, five earned runs in 5½ innings. One night last week, tired of Bobo's sleeve plucking, Manager Marion finally gave in, told Bobo...
...Weather Pen. Much of the world's weather is affected by the "jet-stream"-a narrow, wandering wind that blows at high altitude, often as fast as 200 m.p.h. (TIME, Oct. i, 1951). Weathermen have been keeping track of it with sounding balloons, but the process is slow and expensive. Last week Meteorologist R. E. Falconer of General Electric Research Laboratory told about an electrical gadget that can tell when the jet-stream comes within 200 miles of Schenectady. The gadget "feels" the air for positive or negative charges, then writes its findings with a pen on a moving...
...News has slid a long way since 1947, when Publisher Manchester Boddy's sharp editorial pen and General Manager Robert Smith's shrewd business sense pushed the paper's circulation to nearly 300,000. But in Los Angeles, where the News is the only pro-Democratic paper among the city's five dailies, the paper did not keep up with the competition, especially that of the breezy, afternoon tabloid Mirror, started in 1948 by Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948). While the Mirror grew (to 212,903), the News slipped to under...
...This bill is freedom of serfdom for our children," he added, "and it is about time we placed their freedom ahead of those who would overthrow this government by violence, whether that violence is by sword or pen...