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Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes has a gift for orotund invective with which he delights to smite enemies of the New Deal. Last week he sighted a new enemy, changed his style, and spat out a good old Fourth of July oration. His enemy: totalitarian nations who boast that...
Sighted in mid-Pacific by a ship of the American President Lines, President Pierce, was a waterlogged, barnacle-covered piece of driftwood resembling the rudder of the Chinese junk in which globe-trotting Author Richard Halliburton was lost with all hands last year.
Besides their great literary contemporaries, the Lambs were friends with such characters as Thomas Manning, the vagrant Orientalist, who always carried peppers in his pockets; Charles Lloyd, a neurotic Quaker, whose piano thumping drove Charles Lamb to write The Old Familiar Faces; George Dyer, who could never distinguish between prose...
Against anti-aircraft fire, bombers can coldly figure their probability of hits and simply bring in enough planes from different angles and altitudes, to insure the desired result. Great Britain was believed by last week to have seven anti-aircraft divisions totaling some 960 guns, mostly 3.7 in., electro-automatically...
After this reprieve at dawn, the submarine dived, vanished. The Washington, without waiting to ask questions, steamed ahead, lifeboats still hanging on her stout sides. Not until the ship was well away from the scene did Captain Manning slow down to empty the boats. After all were brought back aboard...