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...Manhattan's ramshackle Bible House, which shelters the New Masses and a raft of other left-wing and labor groups, there was a new stir of activity. Partisan Review, bimonthly magazine of the literary Left, had found an angel. So it was about to go monthly, and pay its editors a salary for the first time...
...glass, cut himself with it, and then stopped, suddenly afraid that he might bleed to death. He decided that he would die in the end anyhow. It seemed odd. He was only 26. He had been in the Navy during the war (and spent 36 hours on a raft after his ship was torpedoed). He had a good job in a Standard Oil Co. paraffin plant in Oakland. He scratched a note to his wife on the fender: "Don't forget I love...
...United's Patterson [TIME, April 21] spend more time supervising his airline and less time indulging in smart repartee with Eddie Rickenbacker. The plight of the average United passenger who is dumped at an airport miles outside the city is not unlike that of Raft-Man Rickenbacker...
Anthropologists will put themselves to a lot of trouble to prove a pet theory. Last week, five Norwegians and a Swede were making plans to sail westward from Callao, Peru, on a seagoing raft. They were taking many of the same chances as their theoretical primitives: the raft was modeled after the balsas of the ancient Peruvians. They hoped to prove that the South Pacific islands had been visited-perhaps partly peopled-by civilized Indians from South America...
Once, at an Air Transport Association meeting, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker complained that he hadn't been informed of certain matters. Patterson snapped: "If you'd quit sitting on a life raft in the Pacific all your life you'd understand these things. We discussed them at our last meeting." Rickenbacker whipped back: "Yes, and it's little sonovabitches like you that make me wish I was back there...