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...about the U.S., some Europeans insist that Americans have no sense of history. To Historian C. Vann Woodward of Johns Hopkins University, that notion is pure bunk. Says he, in the Johns Hopkins Magazine: Americans have such an exaggerated sense of history that they use it as a prop to explain or excuse every conceivable type of policy or position. The result: Americans can no longer "believe our own history...
...down in a similar vertical attitude. Both planes were photographed sitting vertically on their tails (which are equipped with small casters) in take-off position. Both are apparently able to raise and lower themselves simply by virtue of tremendous lift in their counterrotating propellers. The fighters, powered by turbo prop engines, would assume a normal, horizontal attitude after being airborne...
Candy-Coated Chuckle. Many of the boys prop up their fan appeal with wholesale giveaway of wristwatches, electric blankets, home freezers and sports shirts. Standouts in this field are Art Linkletter and his House Party, Welcome Travelers' Tommy Bartlett (noted as the possessor of the "candy-coated chuckle"), and Johnny Dugan of Breakfast in Hollywood, which last week was dropped from TV because of lack of sponsors...
...pilot radioed his control center and said he would have to descend. Control notified the R.A.F. and commercial control towers, which quickly got slow prop planes out of the way. Then the 6-47 headed downward to level out at 12,000 ft. But before it could make an instrument landing, the bomber had to lighten its fuel load. For an hour and a half it circled the field, using up fuel. There was no place nearby where it could dump its dummy bomb load. By 10:30, it was ready to attempt a landing...
...into loafers, it makes honest students throw over well-paying jobs a good month before school would make them quit. The number is, of course, the sum a student may carn before he is no longer a deductable item on his guardian's income tax but becomes, himself, another prop to the national debt...