Word: unorthodox
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...most quietly fey and edgy comic strips in the U.S. this week made its second appearance in book form. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley (Holt; $2) is a 328-page collection of the bland fantasies of 38-year-old Crockett Johnson. Johnson's unorthodox strip first appeared two years ago in New York City's tabloid PM, now draws a host of addicts in 31 U.S. newspapers, including the Baltimore Evening Sun, Philadelphia Record, Chicago Sun, St. Louis Star-Times...
...staring at Niagara Falls. But he was cagey when a newsman asked what he had named his own plane: "I refuse to say for purposes of security." Then, beaming: "Marital security." And in France a 24-year-old lieutenant named Clarence E. Coggins became a hero in an unorthodox way: he got captured...
...huge, vast, fantastic as imagination ran riot and millinery grew scarce. Now a common sight in Paris streets are poke bonnets of brilliant-colored straws, some 18 inches tall, and veil-draped hats reminiscent of the voluminous headgear worn by turn-of-the-century motorists. Earrings are enormous and unorthodox. Some, as big as oranges, dangle from ear to shoulder. Shoes, because leather was scarce, are wooden-soled with wedge heels three inches high...
...airborne commander, "Looey, dot dope," as unorthodox, red-tape-hating General Brereton is called by old Army friends, was going to have more chance to try new tricks than an air force command had ever given...
Germ of the Blitz. Unlike irregular political theory, unorthodox military thinking in Russia has never been penalized. In the 1930s Soviet air-war theory was characterized by bold ideas. It was a Russian, Amiragov, who was among the first to state that a modern war must start with a coordinated assault by tanks and aircraft. The Germans were at work on this nucleus of the Blitzkrieg idea, but the rest of Europe paid little attention. The Russians were the first to experiment on a large scale with mass dropping of parachute troops, and among the first with gliderborne assault forces...