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Long before last week the Treasury bond campaign had become one of the liveliest phenomena of the American scene. Bonds were sold by tomfoolery, parades, fanfare, gags, spectacles, fol de rol-and everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who...
But Pietro was quite sure of one thing: "A man who is spiritually a slave cannot work for true freedom." So he learned to outwear the dogmas and dodge the spiritual traps even of the anti-Fascist party.
Destiny with Pliers. A promising career as a trainer of race horses was interrupted when one day, in the person of Pilot Tom Black, famed African longdistance flyer, she met "Destiny with pliers in his hand." Tom Black taught Beryl to fly. She became a free-lance pilot, adept in...
The U.S. has long had men trained in anti-tank tactics, armed with stationary artillery to defend infantry positions, supplemented with a bag of tank-hampering tricks including "asparagus beds" (barricades) and traps borrowed from the engineers, "Molotov cocktails" learned from the Spanish, and "boom biscuits" (tank mines). At Camp...
"The August City" is what the Russians call Sevastopol, their great port and naval fortress on the Black Sea. It is not a big city (civilian pop.: 67,000), but it is a majestic town with cathedrals, palaces, a mighty harbor where all the warships in Europe could anchor, a...