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...other ships; it can take a vessel at full speed through a crowded harbor and dock it in the foggiest weather. In the air, radar, supplemented by a map of the terrain, would keep a pilot as well oriented as if he were flying over his living-room rug, would ward off collisions with mountains and other planes. It would, of course, prevent such accidents as the Army bomber's crash into the Empire State Building last month...
...castle grounds the Russians had planted a courtyard with red flowers in the shape of a huge red star, set against a background of smooth, carefully mowed lawn. Inside was a dark-paneled main room, furnished with a crimson carpet overlaid with a red and purple Oriental rug, a 12-ft. circular table and 15 chairs, desks for secretaries and stenographers. From the room, hallways led to private suites. Off the main room was also the main dining room, where Baptist Harry Truman, who prefers bourbon, will have to drink many a toast in vodka...
Bobby Jones was no longer allowed to stroll through his home taking practice shots at imaginary golf balls, reported son Robert III. Mrs. Jones laid down the law after the great man missed an imaginary ball, dug a heroic-sized, irreplaceable divot out of the living-room rug...
...fascinating periods of his varied life. A few years ago, in another autobiographical chapter called In the Mill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), Masefield showed that he could distill romance even from the job he once held in a Yonkers, N.Y. carpet factory (1895). With a deck instead of a rug under his feet, Britain's 67-year-old Poet Laureate puts his memories, in pure and simple descriptive prose, to better use than ever. Like its great predecessor Life on the Mississippi (which Author Mase field has reread once a year for decades), New Chum has the freshness...
...squares away to a pitch as though he were going to beat a rug. Crowding the plate with feet apart, he rears up his front leg (not unlike a dog leaning into a hydrant), pulls back his bat, then steps forward and swings. Whenever he faces a high-kicking pitcher, the game looks as leggy as ballet...