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...plummeting shriek of bombs was the first warning the Germans had that there was something new over the western front. Thirty thousand feet above the battleship Gneisenau, lying camouflaged at Brest, flew U.S.-built Flying Fortresses manned by the R.A.F. They had arrived through the substratosphere, unheard and unseen in the broad daylight; they had done so because behind each of the Fortresses' four engines were turbo-superchargers, feeding them fat air to breathe in the thin heights. Though the coast below was warm and summery, the planes were frosted over with rime. They cruised serenely above the effective...
...Unheard from and believed detained by Nazi authorities in Occupied France was famed Surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel, 67, who had entered the occupied zone for a visit with his wife. In France to study malnutrition, he had made a date with a friend for April 25 in Madrid, never appeared...
THOSE TORN FROM EARTH-Frederick Hollander-Liveright ($2.50). An exceedingly likable story about some comparatively lucky German emigres, artists and entertainers in Paris, London, Tel-Aviv, Hollywood. Author Hollander does the unheard-of thing in a refugee story of making much of his action cheerful, even funny, and gets away with...
Manhattan's 57th St. last week turned up an almost unheard-of Spanish painter, Arturo Souto, a solemn, round-bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored paintings of street scenes and peasant figures look conservative alongside the geometric and psychopathic fantasies of his more famed countrymen. But his 'work is agreeably realistic and dourly, muddily individual...
After the Civil War, New Orleans' favorite track, Metairie, was turned into a cemetery, and the Fair Grounds, home of the Louisiana Jockey Club, became the centre of U. S. winter racing. Competition from California or Florida was as yet unheard of, and the track prospered. Then in 1908 the State Legislature banned Louisiana racing...