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Without intending to minimize the danger of tampering with the detonator unit in surplus I.F.F. radio devices [TIME, March 28], I recall vividly the explosion of such a set as I was about to lay hands upon it in the tail of an A26 bomber, late...
Chuck punched the first hole on Oct. 14, 1947, when a B-29 took off from Muroc with his odd, fat little airplane nestled under its bomb-bay. Chuck's small craft had no propeller, no intake for a jet engine; only four rocket orifices in its stubby tail. The little airplane, the Bell X-1, was as daring a challenge to the unknown as the Wrights' first faltering biplane...
...that the Balkan satellites are closed to him, Low confesses to a certain loneliness: "You miss those little men from the security police who tail you, the knowledge that your telephone is tapped, and the interesting things the Communist newspapers write about you" (one described Low as "the Ronald Colman-type champion of American imperialism"). As a final bit of intelligence extracted from his last trip behind the Curtain, Low reports that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry...
...Tarzan and the Mermaids. The producer has the name Tarzan by the tail and he doesn't care how he uses it... Lack of jungle animals didn't help this any. And where were the mermaids...
...simple little boy in the lower echelons, naive about literature and the world in general, just a good boy trying to conform. I thought John Dos Passos was a terrible yellow belly for griping about the war." But at the time, he thought he had the world by the tail. He went to Europe in 1921 ("I was Lord Byron on a triumphal tour. God, it was wonderful!"), and in Rome became engaged to Christina Sedgwick, niece of Atlantic Monthly Editor Ellery Sedgwick. By Marquand's account, his marriage brought him "face to face with the capitalist system...