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...water more than a mile an hour, stay under about ten hours. Each carried at the end of a stick a ten-kilogram explosive charge with contact fuse. A floating chamber behind the charge made it easy to handle. The fukuryus, organized in squads and platoons, were to wait till a vessel passed overhead, then ram the mine into the ship's bottom. They were to be protected from bombardment by underwater "foxholes"-sections of large concrete pipe fitted with steel doors...
...years ago at St. Paul's School, near Concord, N.H., and no St. Paul's grad has ever let anyone forget it. On the black ice of Lower School Pond (it's a bad year when the ice won't bear by Thanksgiving and last till Washington's Birthday), 400 of St. Paul's 437 boys play on 30 intramural teams, on six outdoor rinks, under a dozen assorted coaches. Hockey has always been the school's major sport. The most famed college star ever to wear skates, the late Hobey Baker...
...Duke of Windsor). In Lillibet's case Grandma has modernized her idea of fun to include such excursions as that of last week, when the Princess and a party of friends dined & wined at the Bagatelle, one of Mayfair's toniest nightspots, till past midnight, listened to a red-haired Russian sing Englishmen Never Make Love by Day, danced rumbas and tangos till the band went home. Elizabeth's escort was an old family friend, married, bespectacled Charles Villiers (pronounced Villers), a former colonel in the Grenadier Guards...
...American portrait painter's son, Mielziner was born and brought up in Paris, spoke French till he was ten. He himseif studied to be a painter, switched to stage designing partly because he was mad about the theater, partly to be sure of an income. Says he: "I've never been sorry," pointing meanwhile with an artist's pride to the prices and praise his stage drawings have fetched...
Danger Signal (Warner) is a yarn about a family of ardent cinemaddicts who are menaced by a type that they should have been adequately warned against: the sleek, mustachioed lady-killer. Armed with a revolver, an engagement ring ironically inscribed "Till death us do part" and a shorthand pad on which his victims write their own suicide notes, the killer (Zachary Scott) goes about victimizing the girls for whatever he can get: love, money, auto rides, or free psychiatric advice. As soon as his ladies begin to lose their first attraction, he reaches for the shorthand pad and the revolver...