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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast, agile and an "honest" aircraft (i.e., with no eccentric handling traits). One P-51 set a record for ruggedness when it flew home with a yard of starboard wing shot off, the port wing half buckled and the fuselage bent and torn from collision with a tree. The U.S. noted all this and brought out its own slightly modified version of the plane as the A36 Invader, which did mighty work as a dive and glide bomber and ground-support plane in Sicily...
...angry despair over the "incredible, appalling despoliation." Already 450 acres of the estate surrounding Wentworth Woodhouse, ancestral Fitzwilliams seat in Yorkshire, had been chewed by huge shovels scooping out subsurface coal. A farm, a woodland, a parkland had been dug up. Soon a stud farm, paddocks, fish pond, tree nursery, stately avenues and timbered slopes would also go. The place was a "complete mess...
History as truth interested Dumas, but did not constrain him. "It is permissible to violate history," he said, "on condition that you have a child by her." When people asked him how he produced such a never-ending succession of novels, plays, stories, Dumas said: "Ask a plum tree how it produces plums...
Algiers last week had its first-and perhaps its last-New Year's diplomatic reception. In his tree-shaded villa. Les Oliviers, overlooking Algiers bay. General Charles de Gaulle served port and caviar to handshaking representatives of eleven nations which, in some form or other, have recognized the French Committee of National Liberation. By next January, the men of Algiers hoped, a reception could be held in liberated Paris...
...Triumph (Harper; $3), a study of Southern Negro life beginning with Redding's own family back-ground and finally based on a recent six-month tour of the South. No Day scored over 29 competitors, including North Carolina Resident Betty Smith's best-selling A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Previous cup-winners include Jonathan Daniels' A Southerner Discovers the South and Archibald Henderson's Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet...