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Last week Chief of Denmark's Armed Forces Lieut. General Erik With celebrated his 70th birthday and (that being the Army's age limit) his retirement. He was succeeded by Major General William Wain Prior, 63, a tall, slender man with a deep-lined face and penetrating eyes, who is modest, sober, steady, a little bureaucratic, of bourgeois stock. Like his father, one of Denmark's respected class called grosserer (wholesale merchants), General Prior is an economizing man. He hates to think about the way the blockade is ruining Denmark's exports of foodstuffs. Day after...
...Willibald Pirkheimer (translated into English in 1617) : "I take no pleasure," he wrote, "in those hard, rough, rusticke, agresticke kind of people who are never at rest, but ... are moyling and toyling, do seldom or never give themselves to pleasure, do endure hunger, which are content with a slender diet...
...outdoor girl is Mrs. Harvey Seeley Mudd, 48, wife of a Los Angeles mining engineer. Tall, dark, slender, until five years ago Mrs. Mudd was a typical society matron, noted for her large & lavish parties, her charitable activities, her ancient Roman jewelry (dug up in Cyprus). But five years ago Mrs. Herbert Hoover (who has become as well-known an ad for the Girl Scouts as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt is for the airlines) suggested that the Girl Scouts be revitalized by people with fresh viewpoints, named Mrs. Mudd as a natural revitalizer...
...Fundamentally bombardment is the core of air attack. Bombers do the damage; other planes simply find and clear the way. Main requirements of bombers are speed, range, capacity. Germany's Dornier Do. 17 and Heinkel He. 111 combine these talents admirably. The slender Do. 17, equipped with two liquid-cooled, streamlined, inverted-V Daimler-Benz engines, can lug one ton of bombs 1,500 miles at nearly 300 miles an hour; and the Heinkel, produced at Germany's model factory at Oranienburg (where duplicate machinery is set up underground, where workers live like prep-school boys), can carry...
...former Klondike Gold Rush lawyer named Key Pittman was primarily responsible. Nevada's Pittman, a tall slender gentleman with a discriminating tongue for fine old whiskey and a talent for bumming cigarets from reporters, has one prime faculty-an ability to keep his mind's eye focused on the ice-cold political realities...