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Navigator Addison Thompson had decided to catch up on his sleep. The weather was too bad for star shots, and he had never thought of a radio fix. He slept for about eight hours. When he woke, he found the second flight engineer curled up cozily under his navigation table and the Sky Queen past the point of no-return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: We Did All Right | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Those drives [to the station] have something, surely, akin to drowning. In their course, the whole of a boy's home life passes before his eyes." But worse yet was arriving: "The awful geniality of the House Master! The jugs in the dormitory! Next morning, the bell that woke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tales out of School | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Saturday morning Vag woke up late. As he pondered over whether or not he should buck the odds at Widener in the hope of getting a book, he noticed his two unsold tickets lying on the dresser. As he slow-motioned out of bed, it occurred to him drowsily that for every football game won there was a football game lost. As he combed his hair, he associated this concept with an essay he had read called "Compensation." Compensation or no compensation, he rebutted, dusting out his mailbox, Vag for one, has an insatiable desire for victory and a powerful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...stinking chamber of horrors. Many of the passengers expected to die, waited for the plane to open up with the smash of every sledging wave. Passengers and crew grew violently seasick, vomited helplessly on themselves and each other. Exhausted children were sick, fell asleep in the foul, chilly air, woke and were sick again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Broomstick at the Mast | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Prince, who played hooky from a U.S. summer school last June and shortly turned up in Paris, disappeared last from a Washington, D.C. school but got bagged again. He entered a Hollywood hotel one midnight, settled down in the lobby when he could not pay in advance. When cops woke him, the Prince produced a passport as identification; but it was not his (he had borrowed it). He was briskly hauled off to the station house. Eventually delivered into the strong hands of an older brother, the student Prince had his pockets stuffed with extra socks, two pennies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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