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...Alan Gordon Cunningham, 54, hates big cities. He likes gardening. He also likes dogs. But what he likes best is to fight battles on land. This time, as commander of the newly designated Eighth Imperial Army, he had a whopper on his hands. Lieut. General Cunningham's fame is young: last spring he drove 1,500 miles from Kenya, through Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian desert right to Addis Ababa, reaching the capital faster than other British columns with far shorter distances to go. His name is almost always bracketed with his succinct Order of the Day before that...
...grasshopper. First they removed Francis Bicknell Carpenter's modest mural, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, size 9 by 14, from its 63-year-old place above the east Grand Stairway just off the Capitol's lower chamber. Then to the wall they hoisted a new historical whopper: Howard Chandler Christy's Signing of the United States Constitution, size...
...airmen who had seen Douglas' gigantic, 82-ton 6-19 (TIME, April 28, July 7) the 70-ton Martin 170 did not seem impossibly huge. But she was unmistakably a whopper. Last week she sat in the hangar where she had gradually been collecting herself over the past twelvemonth, after three earlier years of design and tests. Like a frowzy dowager with her hair put up in curlers, she was webbed over with girders, hydraulic jacks, assorted scaffolding; more than 100 workmen, looking the size of nits, swarmed over and through...
...mules with sleek sides . . . slid the flashing plows through the good land and laid it wide for planting. . . . The owners of the pale green striped fields pushed their feet deep into the pulverized ground. . . . Best stand we've had since Nineteen Twenty. We'll make a whopper of a crop this year...
...Tennessee Valley Authority, affecting an area as large as England, with an amount of architectural structure that would have made a Roman emperor gasp, is a whopper. Like many a gigantic monument of the past (Egypt's Pyramids, Rome's Forum, China's Great Wall), TVA is built for use as well as looks. Like them, it will go down as one of the most permanent achievements of its civilization, may even remain a landmark long after its usefulness is over...