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...rifle, which has a peep sight and range and windage adjustments, is so accurate that a reasonably good shot can hit a thumbnail-sized target at 30 feet. Yet the pellet travels slowly enough to be dangerous only to eyes...
...Behind her came the cygnet and chaperone, her sister and protector. When I saw her I felt I had been struck in the heart by a stone. Mr. Drake frowned and drummed his fingers, Mr. Cook began biting his thumbnail and leered in fury, Mr. Porter became homely and paternal, Williams gave a scheming look at her legs, the stage-struck Hodgkin took a comb out of his pocket and ran it through his waved hair. Turpin and Sawston, who were on opposite sides of the same, high, tilted desk, looked at each other fixedly. They looked as though they...
...nostalgic paragraph, he lamented that "to this generation, Ziegfeld is William Powell with talcum at the temples." In a thumbnail review of Around the World, he asked Orson Welles "Isn't it about time you made up your mind whether you're Senator Pepper, D. W. Griffith, or Kupperman the Quiz Kid? . . . You've been away too long, Doubledome." In another piece he gave the back of his hand to an old pal: ". . . Gary Grant has been putting the blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When...
Britain's diplomatic cleanup man had another vanquished crisis under his belt. Beaming baronially as he deplaned in Amsterdam last week after an 8,900-mile flight from Batavia, hump-nosed, ruddy Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr in his pre-peerage days) gave a thumbnail report on his Indonesian peacemaking excursion. The Indonesians, he said, "really want the Dutch to stay." Indonesian Premier Sjahrir is "wise, cool and reasonable." Modestly he summed up his own efforts-to create an atmosphere in which the Indonesians and The Netherlands Indies Acting Governor General van Mook could get together. "It cost...
Halder's thumbnail sketch of Hitler: "The man was a thorough liar, absolutely untrustworthy and completely allergic to reasoning when it was a question of criticizing his pet ideas. His military capabilities were those of a mediocre corporal...