Word: selectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanks for the privilege of selecting winner of Harvard-Yale game. Unfortunately, I am worse selector of football games than Jim Corbet was of boxing matches. I wish I knew which team will win, then I could make one of the coaches a great deal happier during the week...
Thomas Duncan, a down & out ex-Harvard man, has written a rags-to-riches story, and as a result is about to enjoy a rags-to-riches life himself. His novel is the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for September (touted by Book Selector John P. Marquand as "head & shoulders . . . above any fiction [we] have examined this year"). It has already been peddled to Hollywood...
...sighting line. Providing he holds the true line and keeps constant altitude the rest is up to the bombardier. Down the groove flies the Heinkel with its belly bomb-bay doors open. As it gets into range, the bombardier presses the bomb-release button. If he has set his selector for one bomb, only one falls toward the target. If he has set it for salvo-bombing, all drop. Air Corps enlisted men call this "opening the tail gate...