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They were almost smack in the middle of the Jap task force. Lieut. "Benny" Moore, his bald, bowlegged, Texas flight officer, led the others in, and Widhelm had to watch his attack theories from a raft. His main idea: the only way to escape anti-aircraft fire and yet make a hit is to start the dive higher than the books say, end it lower. On top of that, he would make the plane oscillate most of the way down so as not to be a fixed target...
Somebody stood close to the microphone and emitted a long whistle which rose in pitch, until suddenly a fellow on the other side of the studio raised his arms and brought down a pillow smack on the top of a piano. An airplane had fallen out of the skies and had crashed...
Argentina's ship of state, sailing its wayward course of "prudent neutrality" with President Ramón Castillo at the helm, ran smack into an unexpected obstacle last week. The shock came from a direction whence it was least expected-Britain. It left crew and helmsman surprised and angry. When he had weathered it, Captain Castillo was a grimmer and a wiser...
...strange little figure with a tall stocking cap, the shell of a magnesium (incendiary) bomb slung on a cord around her neck, ceaselessly rubbing her dry eyes with her palms. The lady in charge (Fay Bainter) suggests that she may cry if she wishes. Margaret: "You won't smack me if I beller?" "No." Margaret begins to sob, finally relieves her pent-up tension and fears in wild, convulsing wails...
Smackover,* Ark. Dark-haired, Texas-born Bea Muncy Reynolds took over the management of the Smackover Journal in 1937. Her audience was a town of about 2,500 which derived some importance from the fact that it sits smack on top of a 500-million-barrel petroleum pool. Mrs. Reynolds got along fine for awhile. The Journal earned enough to permit purchase of many a new machine for the job shop. Once it got a real news break, when a refinery exploded and caught fire, killing several Smackoverans and injuring scores on publication day. That night the Journal carried...