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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needed to do the paper's circus reviews. In his absence, however, the job must continue to be done, and if the present reviewer has no sense of humor at all, and if he like only a few selected domesticated dogs and horses, and finds uniquely unappealing the sight of an elephant carrying with its trunk another elephant's tail, he at least responds like all normal American children to such marvelous human beings as Francis Brunn, Unus, and Harold Alana...
Johnson had not told that to the Marines. In fact, he seemed to be losing sight of the Marine airmen's one peculiar function: supporting Marine ground forces in amphibious operations. Marine air is the only flying arm specifically trained for close-in support of ground troops from carrier bases...
...There is no finer spectacle," wrote Potter, "than the sight of the good Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look a fool in his own subject, or at any rate interrupting him in that stupefying flow, breaking that deadly one upness of the man who, say, has really been to Russia, has genuinely taken a course in psychiatry, or has written a book on something...
...paint store that looked more like an art gallery. The white and Negro painters and paperhangers who showed up for her opening party, to rub shoulders with her bigwig friends and Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, saw few paint cans on display (they were tucked out of sight). But there were painters' sponges growing on papier-mâché trees, wallpaper displays in shadow boxes, and some dazzling color schemes...
...light "six to eigh inches in diameter, clear white and com pletely round with a sort of fuzz at the edges." Lieut. Gorman dived at the light the light dived at Gorman. Round & round they went for 27 minutes. Then the light put on speed and tore out of sight on a northwest-north heading...