Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hustings. Though he never worked, Sir George was always busy. Twice Tory M.P. for the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, his chief political handicap was that he could never remember his constituents' names. When not immersed in heraldry, he spent his time sitting on a tall wooden tower in the park, a gray umbrella over his head, a telescope at his eye, figuring out his latest ideas in landscape gardening. "I don't propose to do much," Sir George would say casually, "just a sheet of water and a line of statues." He also liked practical jokes...
Under the Gothic pile of Parliament's World War I Victory Tower, two V.C.s met. Both were there to sell Victory Bonds for World War II. They shook hands, parted. One was trim, khakied Major Paul Triquet, who won the Victoria Cross early this year before Ortona (TIME, March 20). The other was little Philip Konowal, whose glory had been forgotten by almost everybody but himself...
...Klahn of Laramie, Wyo.-twelve Hellcats swarmed over a nearby Japanese destroyer, pounded warming-up Jap planes on land bases. A British submarine went to the rescue. It surfaced under shore-battery range, coolly scooped up Klahn and submerged while 6-in. shells laced the water around the conning tower. For the Japanese it must have seemed a harebrained performance to salvage one expendable...
...striating the sky with vapor trails, and when (over Germany) the flak begins to pop its thick corn. Shots which are merely powerful in black-&-white become overpoweringly real and immediate in Technicolor. To the layman the actual bombing, for all its excitement, is just an uncommunicative, tremendous tower of smudge. And the trip home, through fierce air fighting, lacks the fine coherent tension which make the first two-thirds of Memphis Belle a remarkable film...
...Colonel's build-up has been terrific. You get the impression out this way that he is a superman, barking orders to the Middle West from the top of Tribune Tower. . . . The reality is simpler. . . . The Colonel doesn't like what is happening in the world. Instead of looking forward to a new solution, he wants to go back to a time when, as he sees it, everything was clear and simple and good...