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...Mitchel's pursuit pilots, the air battles of World War II are very real and very near-nearer than any civilian realizes. For Mitchel Field is not simply a training base for the First Air Force but the defensive center for the Northeastern seaboard...
...young P-40 pilots and their senior officers do not smile when they ponder the possibilities of air attack on the Eastern seaboard. Their job is to think about it and prepare for it as best they can. They know the Atlantic routes by which attack could come, whatever the cost in enemy planes and pilots...
...Germans know-the possible reward which might justify the risk and cost of such seemingly useless raids: panicky American outcry might insist on cutting off aid to Britain and withholding equipment from the new advanced U.S. bases until the U.S. improved its home defenses. By the time the Eastern seaboard was banked with defensive planes and guns, the Nazis might win the battles they really need...
...Ickes sent oilmen reeling this week. He asked them to turn over 100 more tankers to the British, 25 of them immediately. With the 50 tankers already turned over (TIME, May 26), that will cut the U.S. coastwise tanker fleet by 40% to 200 vessels. It means the Atlantic seaboard gasoline famine is closer and graver than ever...
Clarinetist Pete Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about...