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...Britisher managed to muddle through. Before nightfall in old Hameln town, sacred to the legend of the Pied Piper, he had sent eight men and three women dancing at the end of his ropes...
...Marine Division, tried the route to Chinwangtao. For two days Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major Gen eral Keller E. Rockey, commander of the III Amphibious Corps, radioed a message to the U.S. commander in chief in China, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer...
...Famed Piper Aircraft Corp. was neck & neck with Taylorcraft. Shrewd, quick-moving President William Thomas Piper, whose planes hedge-hopped up & down the front lines during the war, is making 300 planes a month in his Lock Haven, Pa. plant, hopes to edge his output up to 600 planes a month by January. While most of his competitors concentrated on one plane, he had shrewdly put two models into production, the Piper Cub Special ($2,010) and the three-place Piper Cub Super Cruiser...
...probably the fattest backlog of anyone in the light-plane industry. And there were plenty more in the offing, thanks to a smart deal to sell his planes in department stores (John Wanamaker's Manhattan and Philadelphia stores and Mandel Bros, in Chicago already have contracts to sell Piper planes). Next year, he hopes to step way out in front of the industry with his single-place, 90-m.p.h. Skycycle, which will sell for under...
...agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...