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...answering salvo, pro-Picassos quoted Jaime Sabartes, Picasso's secretary and friend. Sabartes concedes that Picasso's work is sometimes, by ordinary standards, ugly. But he has an explanation. Wrote Sabartes, in a book published in Paris (Picasso, Braun...
Over the past few months, Stassen has listened to such political shop talk coolly and appraisingly, like a man watching the gunnery calculations before a salvo is fired. His backers insist that G.O.P. bigwigs, camped in Washington, are still underestimating the effectiveness of their candidate's missionary work within the party. He has done his persuasive best to help the campaigns of young G.O.P. candidates. In his months of travel, Stassen has talked to a score of state chairmen and other Republican local officials. When he met men who were backing either Taft or Dewey he did not argue...
Battle Results. Radar's fantastic capabilities have been dramatized again & again in battle. It was radar that enabled a .U.S. warship to smash the battleship Jean Bart at Oran with one salvo from 26 miles away. German radar-directed fire sank the British battle cruiser Hood, and British radar in turn tracked down the Bismarck. It was a radar operator who gave the tragically ignored warning of approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor...
...Loudest Noise I Ever Heard." At 5 a.m. a large Japanese plane dove low and before any alarm could be sounded, let go a salvo of 100-kilogram bombs, one of which got the street corner 50 ft. from our house. The noise was the loudest I have ever heard. I landed in a sitting position half out of bed, and hopelessly tangled in mosquito netting...
Later Stalin came to dinner at the British Embassy for the first time ever, took Winston Churchill, somewhat weary from so much work & play, to the ballet. There he and Stalin stood up, received salvo after salvo of applause...