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...last, the sky lane over "the Rock Pile" had been fraught with danger. At the Kunming field, a mud-brick Chinese village at one end of the runway snagged so many incoming planes into wreckage that ground crews finally leveled it with bulldozers. At one stage more than 700 crashes-including many bombers and tactical aircraft-were spotted on the map at Search and Rescue headquarters in Chabua. India...
Last week, lamenting the fact that Britain has drifted so far from "the Christian conception of marriage," the Archbishop pointed out the mounting pile of divorce pleas on Britain's dockets.* Said he: "Marriage is no longer regarded . . . either as a sacrament or as a holy estate, but as a contract which can be broken fairly easily by mutual consent. The old idea of marriage is gone, and with it divorce is condoned...
...clouds appeared. Every day brought a new strike or strike threat. The layers of disputes before the National Labor Relations Board, the quick pile-up of new disputes, threatened the U.S. with troubled labor weather for many a day to come. In Detroit, where most of the storms shape up, the nation got a glimpse of what made the barometer fall...
...Steve Owen's solid New York Giants, who have added some T to their offensive assortment and have pile-driving Marion Pugh back to pass and plunge. Making their own breaks as usual, the Giants this week tied the Yanks...
...days when Pittsburgh's art show, the Carnegie International, was really international, only a handful of Americans could break in. France's Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Derain usually won top honors. During the war, Carnegie went all-American. Last week, in its Romanesque stone-pile set in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, the Carnegie Institute put on what will presumably be its last purely U.S. show, and invited 350 U.S. artists-the most ever-to show their wares. It was still, in prestige at least, the biggest annual U.S. art event, as it has been since...