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...weather-beaten Liberator bomber which had taken Winston Churchill to Moscow, Casablanca and Turkey eased down on Washington's airport last week, bringing Britain's handsome, faultlessly groomed Robert Anthony Eden on his second visit to the U.S. The first time, in 1938, he was temporarily out of public life in protest against Chamberlain appeasement-he came to make little speeches, lay wreaths and inspect CCC camps. This time, as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Churchill's heir-presumptive, he came on urgent and secret business...
Battle Scores. According to U.S. figures, the Japs lost three light cruisers, seven destroyers and twelve merchant ships, and 15,000 troops. Of the 150 planes which tried to save the convoy, 102 were put out of action. For this clean victory, the U.S. paid: One heavy bomber, three fighters. Of the 136 U.S. planes in battle, 132 returned...
...swarthy, pint-sized Private Woodrow Wilson Rich (famed boy-prodigy violinist Ruggiero Ricci)* and his cellist brother George Washington Rich. Wood Wilson Rich (who has developed a soldierly liking for hot dogs) sits in the middle of the second row of violinists, fiddles such Santa Ana numbers as Jive Bomber on his $3,000 Lorenzo Storione violin...
...bomb had blocked the entrance. They made a rush for the stairs. At that very moment (here and only here did the war touch this accident) something in the sky over London frightened those who had not yet entered. Some said that it was the shriek of a dive-bomber, others that it was London's new anti-aircraft shell which sounds like "100 witches going overhead at 1,000 miles an hour." The people outside surged forward and pushed down the stairs...
...Break a Silence. Last fall Franklin Roosevelt sent Pat Hurley as his observer to Russia. Grey, ramrod-backed General Hurley made a hit with Stalin, who let him go to the Stalingrad front-the first foreigner so trusted. In a bomber with two other American officers, General Pat was flown over the front where the Russians were completing one of the most complicated encircling operations in military history. Pat & friends saw it all in detail. Later the Hurley party toured the front in a jeep, lived at field headquarters and had the best of Russian hospitality and cooperation. In return...