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...Herald Tribune's, libel reporter is tense, grizzled, fun-loving Jay Racusin. Inquisitive Newsman Racusin, now 47, has been with the Herald Tribune since 1918. As a cub he was the first (and only) newspaperman to interview J. P. Morgan after World War I. Reporter Racusin (known as "Rack") gets plenty of other assignments that call for a passionate curiosity about the lives of his fellow men, a plain-clothes man's eye for significant details. Six weeks ago the Herald Tribune's lanky City Editor Lessing Engelking called Rack and gave him a special assignment...
...Rack went to the Waldorf-Astoria where Dr. Westrick had a three-room suite. There he discovered that Dr. Westrick rarely used it, kept it simply as an office in charge of a handsome young German woman, Baroness Irmingard von Wagenheim. So Rack tried to learn where most of Dr. Westrick's phone calls came from, found that they were coming from a telephone in Scarsdale, N. Y. Up went Rack to suburban Scarsdale and did some more undercover work...
Each Stuka carries four 110-lb. or smaller bombs in racks on the wings, but its big wallop is packed under the fuselage: a 1,100-lb. or 550-lb. bomb on a rack that can be extended as the dive is begun. Reason for extension: bombs released in a dive pick up speed faster than the ship, have been known to poke their noses into the whirling prop and blow dive bomber and crew to bits. The extension guides the bomb out of the propeller...
...found that the Allies had left him to fight with an open flank and rear. (The British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped rack after rack of bombs at transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed...
...pop.3,406). To it went customers who had been waiting for lockers in Emil Klinger's filled main plant. For his $10 deposit each newcomer received two keys - one to the front door and one to the locker - and the right to borrow an overcoat from the rack inside, so he won't catch cold getting his food out of his 0°-10° safe-deposit...