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...would have trouble understanding the language of Lawyer Richard Knight. Socialite Knight, who used to shock friends and intoxicate New York tabloid readers by such didos as kicking out taxicab windows and standing on his head at a Metropolitan Opera opening, who for years has swung a legal tomahawk around New York courts, terrifying lawyers and citizens alike, has devoted himself during the past two years to writing. He writes a simple, direct, Elizabethan style that soars far above legalese. Its simple, pungent, unlegal merit is that it is as understandable as swearing. That is mostly what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Knight Out | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...coaches, with ample time to have studied slow-motion pictures of Stanford's 1940 games, should be better prepared to fathom Coach Clark Shaughnessy's tricks. So far, Oregon and U.C.L.A. have failed to do so. Last week against U.C.L.A., Shaughnessy used 48 substitutes, watched his tribe tomahawk the Bruins 33-to-0, Stanford's twelfth victory in a row. One team that may stop Stanford is Washington, bent on revenge for last year's defeat (its only conference defeat of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Get In There & Fight | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...fire of the dedication, pilots hurtled the old Tomahawk and the new Kittihawk across the field leaving behind them a sound like the ripping of a canvas tent. They did vertical slow rolls, snapped null over on their backs and back again to demonstrate fighting maneuverability. While their workmen-builders shouted applause they sent their speedsters straight up thousands of feet, looped, did soaring Immelmann turns, flew on their backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kittihawk | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...Henry was reported well equipped with planes, tanks, Bren gun-carriers and artillery, all having heavy fire power. He also commanded an unknown quantity of material: the Australians used Tomahawk fighters (Curtiss P-40s) to drive the Ju. 88s away at Sidon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: Mixed Show | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Lockheed's two-engined pursuit ("Lightning" to British pilots) does 404 m.p.h. at 16,000 feet, carries a 37-mm. cannon and four .50-calibre machine guns, has a range of 500 miles at cruising speed (350 m.p.h.). > The Curtiss pursuit (Anglice: "Tomahawk") carries two .50-calibre, four .30-calibre machine guns, has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, top speed of 350. ¶ North American's NA-73 (Anglice: "Mustang")-very hush-hush in the U. S. and barely mentionable in the press-has a top of 398, carries six guns. ¶ Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Speed Facts | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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