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...fighter, more formidable than the Zeros.* Maine's Senator Ralph 0. Brewster (see p. 13) declared last week that the ratio of U.S. air victories has begun to drop, that Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force flyers in China were so surprised by their first brush with Japan's new fighter that they lost five out of seven bombers...
...good distance from the beach; we had not even reached our line of departure; yet the German guns were on us already. As we learned later, the Germans were so sure of where we were going to land that they brought their defenses right onto our beach. Trees, brush and all obstacles were cut down so as to obtain a clear field of fire. Nothing was left to chance. Machine guns fired only in certain zones; the zones interlocked. Almost on the water's edge, in some cases only 50 yd. apart, machine guns were set up facing...
...Hope got back from Britain shortly after a brush with Westminster Abbey authorities. The comedian and a cinema company with a load of cinematic baggage had piled into the Dean's Yard to shoot some scenes, promptly got bundled out again. They had neglected to ask permis sion. Title of the movie: Welcome to Great Britain...
...Brush your teeth-it improves your outlook on life...
...Cleveland Health Museum. Beside each question is a little flapdoor; behind it, visitors find the answer (answer to these three questions: No).* The museum is full of other tricky gadgets: e.g., by turning a crank, a visitor gets a model demonstration of the right and wrong ways to brush teeth; by dialing his age, he learns how much longer (actuarially, but not actually) he may expect to live...