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Fascism's Labor Day came & went in Italy last week with scarcely a ripple of celebration. Duce Mussolini, who in bet ter days was wont to show himself barechested, building walls in the former Pontine Marshes, was chest-deep in other, less healthy labor. For the second time in a fortnight he shook up his Party leader ship. Tunisia was on his mind. So was his slowly crumbling Blackshirt State. A new generation of resistance was gathering its strength in Italy...
...Martinique, sometime Borsch-Circuiter Jackie Miles makes a lively pat-ter-and-gag man. Sample: He asks an Army doctor whether there is any chance of a deferment. Answers the sawbones: "Not unless your seeing-eye dog goes lame...
...reasons, did not tell just how far its interest in the helicopter went. But Igor Sikorsky knew, and what he knew seemed to satisfy him. He had seen an airman's dream come true: the helicopter* (which irreverent Sikorsky disciples, in mock-Russian accent, call the helicopéter) could now do more than take off straight up in the air, land straight down and hover motionless. It could also carry a respectable load (two passengers), enough gasoline to make cross-country flights...
...noose in the background, but the artist had so much fun drawing its intricacies that he kept right on tying knots until there were ropes enough for 22 executions. And the only reason I can find for the little monkey hanging from a tree behind Java's Governor Ter Poorten was that our artist did not like Japs...
Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell, the U.S. Army's Lieut. General George H. Brett, the Dutch Army's Major General Hein ter Poorten, the U.S. Air Forces' Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, the Allied Navies' Vice Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich huddled in a swirl of blue and khaki staffers. In view through the windows of their three-storied headquarters, the mountains and volcanoes of Java dreamed in the sun and rain...