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...swarm of tiny home-built sloops tugged at Prince George Wharf in Nassau one morning last week, bobbing lazily on the swells. For days the native grapevine had hummed through the outer islands of the Bahamas, carrying the news that "the King" was coming. Loyal island blackamoors streamed in to see him, unaware that the King was now only a Duke. In a tangle of livestock, cooking utensils and wriggling-black babies, they sat on their crowded decks, awaiting the "Rejoicin...
...Army. For the French Army, living in a shrieking, thundering, blood shot nightmare, last week was a period of progressive disintegration. Swarm after swarm of planes strafed them. Herd after herd of tanks charged them. Columns of armored motorcycles machine-gunned them, storms of artillery shells and grenades burst among them. Wave on fresh wave of constantly replenished German infantry pressed after them. They retreated fighting, day and night, through a time-space that had no measure because it brought no rest, and no features because the whole world was filled with smoke, noise and death...
...over the sea west of Namsos roared a wide swarm of Germany's deadliest aircraft of all; Junkers Ju.87 dive-bombers ("Stukas"), which had not been given a major workout since they pulverized prostrate Poland. These speedy, relatively small single-motored ships have stout wings to pull them out of long, steep power dives at 430 m.p.h. Their crews are specially trained to stand the pressures of such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory...
...Cave Boy is still tearing off hunks of roast triceratops, scrambling up a high rock to squat and gnaw. By 999,999 B. C. Cave Girl has him eating out of a clam shell. She is less successful with the shoals of hungry reptiles which swarm into the picture from practically every geologic epoch, all of whom share a taste for cave folk...
Many growling New Orleans doctors consider Charity a first step toward socialized medicine. But nobody denies that Charity does a big job: from the cane and Teche country, patients swarm in to its clinics at the rate of 12,000 a week...