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...little operation-it's a big operation. You will leave Haneda [the airport between Tokyo and Yokohama] at 6:30 Wednesday morning. I've got a new plane," he continued, "and I'll follow you in that." Then, pointing his black pipe at us, he said with his quiet laugh: "But you bums will go in my old plane, the Bataan...
Shore Party. Next day the general went ashore. On a ridgetop near Kimpo airfield he pulled on his corncob pipe and talked about bygone battles in the Philippines. To Vice Admiral Arthur Struble he said: "I've lived a long time and played with the Navy for a long time. They've never, never failed me." Then he drove back to the waterfront...
...binding plywood to metal, Ottinger and his technicians opened up new markets for the material (in trains, truck bodies and shipping containers). They perfected a thin hardwood veneer as flexible as cloth, turned out a wall covering that cannot be distinguished from solid paneling. They even turned out plywood pipe, got $5,000,000 worth of orders for it in World War II as a light, portable radar mast. Of the 20 basic plywood and related products now sold by Ottinger, the newer ones include plywood office doors as fireproof as steel, and tabletops which cigarettes cannot...
Early this year, Monogram studios decided to film the life and exploits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha, who, according to legend, went among the warring Indian tribes and persuaded them to smoke the pipe of peace and brotherhood. Last week Monogram announced that the project had been shelved. Reason: Hiawatha hewed too close, for current U.S. taste, to the Communist "peace" line...
...Challenge You." Said Oscar Chapman to poker-faced Andy Schoeppel: "I challenge you and dare you to shed the cloak of immunity and sit here under oath . . . and repeat the speech." Andy Schoeppel calmly blew a smoke screen with his pipe, sat behind it and ducked the challenge...