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...wing monoplane dropped on Croydon Aerodrome, London, in a landing which Aeroplane described as "the bounceless plop of a mashed potato." The plane had the flag of the Rising Sun painted on its white flank; it was named The Divine Wind. Its pilot, a 24-year-old wizard of endurance named Masaaki Iinuma, had just flown all the way from Tokyo (via Formosa, Indo-China, India, Iraq, Greece, Italy, France) in four days. Aeroplane, remarking that the crowd of greeters at the field nearly trampled underfoot half a dozen very small Japanese girls and their bouquets, paid tribute to Pilot...
...sweeping High Command shakeup, hailed by a jubilant press as a sure sign that "fighting days are here again," General Sir John Greer Dill, who will reach the retirement age of 60 Christmas Day, announced his own replacement as Chief of Staff by General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 58, Commander in Chief of Home Forces and mechanized-warfare specialist. But popular Wizard Brooke will also reach retirement age in 20 months. Named Vice Chief was the ranker, Major General Archibald Nye, who is only...
...many newsmen rated "the least fair and reliable" should be an outstanding success does not mean that its journalistic sins are profitable. The Tribune's success can be laid to other factors than its news. It has always had a great and tough circulation department, perfected by that wizard of circulation, the late Max Annenberg, who fought Hearst with almost gangster methods, and carried on by Max's blasphemous brother-in-law, Louis Rose. No small credit for the Tribune's fat profit belongs to Business Manager W. E. Macfarlane...
BERLIN--Colonel General Ernst Udet, 45, the mechanical wizard behind the Luftwaffe, who developed Germany's parachute troops and the dreaded Stuka dive bombing tactics, has been killed testing "a new type of fire-arm," according to an announcement which said his death was the worst blow of the war to the air force...
...even in social stability. He was an egoist, individualist, amoralist-a sort of living symptom of creeping social sickness. He had a sizable fortune from his father, but taught history in the provinces to make a little extra. Pierre himself gambled in the stockmarket, but he was no wizard. He lost money...