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...slender Alexander Semenovich Panyushkin, 42, Soviet Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 3). Ambassador Panyushkin was one of 1,164 passengers aboard the luxury Cunarder Mauretania. As far as the newsmen were concerned he might have been the only...
Matsukichi, a slender fellow with a long, egg-shaped face and large, gentle eyes, gravely told of the life that led him to crime. "I am," he said, "the child of my mother by some former connection of hers. I did not go too much to school." When he was 18, Matsukichi stole his boss's sandals and then some money. For this, he spent his first eight months in jail...
High Harpoon. When a tanker flies alongside a "receiver" (the plane to be refueled), the receiver lets out a slender line that floats behind in a graceful dropping curve. The tanker fires a kind of harpoon-gun, which shoots another line to tangle with the receiver's line. Clawlike devices on the two ends lock together. The receiver hauls in both lines. Next comes a fuel pipe filled with nitrogen gas to minimize danger of explosion. Then comes gasoline, flowing by gravity at 100 gallons a minute. The tanker can supply up to 2,000 gallons...
...News, did not let her subway public down. Borrowing luscious details from the London Mirror account, she told how the happy newly weds headed for their bedroom (pink sheets) at Broadlands and how at a stair landing, "Philip looked down and put his arm around his bride's slender waist. She smiled shyly at her tall sailor husband as they continued on upstairs." For an added measure of tabloid taste, she guessed that the couple may have played some records that the Marquess of Milford Haven had given Philip, such as Cuddle Up a Little Closer or Bess...
Such consistent success was earned by the diligent exercise of a slender but well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...