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And just as important as the books and magazines are the day-by-day cables... from men like A.T. Steele of the Chicago Daily News, the N.Y. Times' Hallet Abend, and Tillman Durdin, and TIME's own T.H. White, who came via Harvard and the Chinese information ministry, and is...
London had some new heroes last week: delayed-bomb-extraction squads. Londoners called them "fang pullers." The city buzzed with stories of these daring men who dug deep into the ground, lifted out the still-live explosives, and carried them off to destroy them in open places. One, looking down...
Last July, Seattle opened its floating bridge, the longest, oddest pontoon bridge in the world. Its four-lane concrete highway, one and a quarter miles long, is the deck of 25 cement pontoons. The bridge actually floats, seven feet deep, in the water. As if the engineers had not had...
At naval and private docks in South and East Boston, workmen repainted the hulls, painted out the names (but not the U. S. Navy numerals) of other ships of the same class. Hustled aboard were oil for an Atlantic crossing, reportedly full stores of 21-inch (British-size) torpedoes for...
"Last week, for the first time in more than two decades, some 300 U. S. dress manufacturers, designers, buyers and fashion editors failed to spend early August in Paris, France. For the first time in over 20 years the cables were barren of news from world headquarters of the haute...