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...Pilgrim Hawk is as good as anyone need hope. It is a superbly turned specimen of that long-short form which Story Editor Whit Burnett likes to call The Novella. "Simple" only in profile and in the manner of its telling, the tale has symbolic and psychological structures that are no simpler than the internal cross-flickerings of a poem...
...have given Comrade Stalin satisfaction to reflect that he had taught the tough-skulled British another lesson without hurting his own cause one whit. For Russia fears nothing from any nation on earth except Germany. Fear of Germany and shrewd appraisal of Germany's needs help to lead Russia into bargains with Germany. Last year's bargain gave Russia a year of peace, new territory, and easier frontiers to defend. This year's bargain, whatever it may be, was probably designed with the same ends in view...
Without detracting one whit from the courage and heroism of the American correspondents in Europe today, I would like to point out that Hitler's war is not a personal war against the U. S. newspaper men in Europe. In Asia, however, the frustrated Japanese war lords blame the American correspondents in Shanghai and elsewhere for their failure to frighten and befuddle the U. S. and disorganize the Chinese in the occupied areas. The Japanese and their hirelings are today waging a personal war upon those heroes of the American press-Randall Gould, J. B. Powell, T. H. White...
...Countries and France went under, the London Financial Times's index of industrials collapsed to an eight-year low of 61. But the bombings of London, which send the brokers scurrying and are supposed to prelude the end of their world, have not fazed brokers or prices one whit. Last week, while the Stukas dived, the index had completed two months of climbing, was back...
...ground. An observer of the Field Artillery in a plane spotted all 40 and accurately plotted their positions on his map. The explanation: the artilleryman, selected under less rigorous examination than the Air Corps man, was colorblind. Camouflage, designed to deceive the normal eye, fooled him not a whit...