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...Brewster planes after July 1. It explained that it was cutting back fighter production $180,000,000, mainly because attrition had been only one-third as great as anticipated. Brewster was the last to get into Corsair production, produced feebly, and now bore the brunt of the cut. Brew ster also became the first U.S. planemaker to have all its war work suddenly ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: End for Brewster? | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Form the Battalion" will start its career tomorrow morning when the new stripers will be announced. Just between us, let's speculate on Rehurek for Battalion Commander; Hoffman for Sub-Batt Commander, Bryan for Company 3 "Hep-ster," Wanvig to take over for Company 4, with Bergen and Harty for Company 3 Platoon Leaders, and Stallard and Moss for Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/2/1944 | See Source »

...William Thomas Manning, 77 and Episcopal Bishop of New York since 1921, set his stern, septuagenarian face, and flatly refused to get off his episcopal throne. Heartened, Buffalo's Bishop Cam eron Josiah Davis, a comparative young ster of 70, said he would not budge either. The trouble started last October, when the Episcopal Church's Triennial General Convention (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943) ruled that bishops must retire at the age of 72. The convention also resolved that this rule was "binding upon the present members of the House [of Bishops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unbudgeable Bishops | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...next day was .different. A similar U.S. air fleet attacked Brunswick, Mün-ster and four smaller towns, and this time the Luftwaffe came up in force and fought. Toll for the attackers was 27 bombers and six fighters, but 61 Nazi planes were shot down. And at week's end a fleet of more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers fought a grueling battle with flak and night-fighters over Berlin, paying with 73 bombers for the huge fires left spreading in the doomed Nazi capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Clear Track to Berlin | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Evil in the forms of Life and Death, Light and Darkness, Fertility and Sterility, Courage and Respectability, Intelligence and Stupidity- all the great absolutes that are so dull when discussed in themselves." But the comic manner, which Forster affects, "will not tolerate absolutes." It stands on Novelist For ster's "barricade" and smiles with maddening good humor on both sides. In this comic manner lies a method: "The fierce plots move forward to grand simplicities, but the comic manner confuses the issues, forcing upon us the difficulties and complications of the moral fact. The plot suggests eternal division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forster and the Human Fact | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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