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When William H. Cook of Los Angeles joined the U. S. Army Air Corps few weeks ago he had an unusual career to report. He had made 389 parachute jumps, sailed through the air on silken wings many a time as one of the original "batmen." Last week the Air Corps announced his assignment to school for a neglected phase of his education: Private Bill Cook was being taught how to pack one of the parachutes he had often used...
...depended upon TIME for accurate world news during the 15 years he was in Thailand, it was very shocking to see it describe (Dec. 30) the keen young son of the Thai Minister in Washington as being an "elegant figure in silken plus fours...
Pretty Maria Garland of Peru was dressed in a costume of the ancient Incas. Usni Pramoj of Thailand was a small but elegant figure in silken plus fours. Starlet of the day was seven-year-old, barefoot, pinafored Liana De Bayle, daughter of the Nicaraguan Minister, and a veteran of international broadcasts. Liana recited a rhymed story of "a little [Nicaraguan] girl I think you know," concluded: "I wonder if you now suspect this little Nicaraguan girl...
Burglars. Targets for the Gangsters and other parashots will be a new class of parachute troops announced by Germany last week, trained to land on city housetops, equipped with burglar tools to break in, silken ropes down which to slide to the ground. They carry kernels of concentrated soot to make their own smoke screens while descending and after landing. Germany's "sealing" of the Maginot Line district last week, as well as the areas facing Britain, was interpreted as a precaution to keep prying eyes from seeing these burglars and other special troops at practice on new wrinkles...
...mixture of cowardice, confusion, misunderstanding. To beat around the bush of last autumn's Neutrality Act, the loan was restricted to non-military supplies. Michigan's nervous Representative John Dingell shouted: "To hell with Stalin and to hell with Hitler! . . . We restrict the loan for powder puffs, silken scanty panties and cream puffs, when we know the Finns need shrapnel,* buckshot, barbed wire and all the fiercest implements of hell because they are fighting to stop anti-Christ and the hosts of hell led by Beelzebub. ... Let every man stand up and be counted, let him vote...