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...hours and five drinks later we were out in the cold, coatless, in front of a squat building known as the Hi-Hat. We entered and smiled benignly at the chichat check girl. A short dapper man with horn-rimmed glasses approached...
...only usable portion of a sag-roofed shack set amidst girders of a bombed-out hangar. Most of the wing's 48 B-26 bombers are bunched like sitting ducks on a tiny concrete apron before the hangar. One or two, not finding room on the apron, squat dismally on the open field, so deep in mire that even their propeller tips are stuck fast. Theoretically, there is a large, revetted parking area available for the planes-but a French farmer has built a solid house and two barns right in the middle of its taxiway. Through...
...tools leaped clattering from their hooks, dishes broke, and over the bedlam the wind yowled and screamed. At dawn two unbelievable waves (sailors swore they were 75 ft. high) fell on the Flying Enterprise. With a cannonlike bang, her shuddering deck and hull cracked open, just forward of her squat, white superstructure...
...results have usually seemed artistically outrageous, if not downright blasphemous. Epstein's phallephoric Adam was denounced as pornography; his Jacob and the Angel, billed as "the world's greatest shocker," went on tour in an artistic peepshow; G. K. Chesterton took one look at his square, squat Ecce Homo, then thundered at it as "one of the greatest insults to religion I've ever seen...
...controls during this spectacular maneuver was Polish-born Test Pilot Janusz Zurakowski, who had worked out the first new aerobatic stunt in 20 years.* Squat, studious-looking Pilot Zurakowski flew with the R.A.F. after escaping from a Nazi prison camp, has three Luftwaffe kills and three probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt...