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...acquiesced. To head his liaison group, Clark appointed Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, 53, Annapolis graduate (1924), who has made a solid reputation in the Navy both as desk man and blue-water sailor. Organizer of the Navy's first underwater demolition team, John Daniel commanded a destroyer squadron in the Pacific, won the Navy Cross. He came from the first session this week reporting that the Communists were "very objective"-meaning businesslike, and not disposed to stall. At the second session, the U.N. briskly accepted the Red offer to exchange disabled POW's but reiterated its long...
Flamboyant imagination is not necessary to fly with the First Pixie Squadron to the Technicolor world of Never Land. Tinkerbelle, a fetching sprite in a clinging Jantzen, sprinkles the Darling family with so much pixie dust that ample remains for the audience. From there on, Indians, Pirates, songs, and the Boys make everyone wish they were seeing the show for the first time. Maude Adams and Jean Arthur, after all, never really could fly; this...
...military transport planes winged over the Pacific on an average of one every 45 minutes; an Arctic flight or an Atlantic crossing took place every hour and 15 minutes. One Alaska-based squadron chalked up 700 North Pole crossings over a five-year period...
Indeed, as Napoleon's little squadron sails northward to France through the British blockade, Herbert can hardly restrain a huzzah. Miraculous! he chortles. "The gods were on Napoleon's side." However, says Herbert, the decision to escape was by no means a pleasant one for Napoleon. The conqueror of Europe, Herbert assures his readers, wanted nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends...
Escorted by three court cars, two motorcyclists and his stepmother (the Princess de Rethy), King Baudouin of Belgium and his party roared into Hertogenwald forest on what the palace called an "incognito" hunting trip. A squadron of beaters managed to maneuver one wild boar within six yards of the nearsighted King, who scored a clean miss. The tally at the end of the hunt: three wild boar, one hind. The King's bag: nothing...