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...Pomposia, who has a corner on the spear and arrow market, in order to get the necessary armaments to ward off an attacking Greek army. As long as Hippolyta wears her golden girdle, the women will rule. So the Greeks send Hercules to challenge the Queen in combat and get that girdle. Hoppolyta gives it to Antiope, the mighty huntress, who loses it to Theseus, the handsome Greek warrior, while learning how a man makes love. Sapiens, let loose in the Greek camp, discovers his manhood, asserts his authority as king, and establishes for all time the dominance of masculinity...
...German submarine campaign had by last week made the Atlantic seaboard one of the most critical combat areas in the world. Navy men, scouring the waters with surface and aircraft, knew it well. So did the National Maritime Union, which numbers its losses at sea in the hundreds. So did men on the production front, officials like Shipping Tsar Rear Admiral "Jerry" Land, and shipbuilders who had suddenly had a strange goal set before them: produce ships faster than the Jerries can sink...
...inequitable as it may seem. This is cited by Navy brasshats as their side of the story. Another brasshat argument is that just because a man went to Annapolis, or has a friend on the selection board, does not prove ipso facto that he will be a knothead in combat. Another argument is that if the Navy were composed entirely of "original thinkers" it would not last long as a Navy...
...conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in aerial combat" the President of the U.S. gave him his country's highest military decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor; the Secretary of the Navy promoted him from lieutenant to lieutenant commander; his home town (St. Louis) gave him the wildest public ovation since Hero Lindbergh's return there 15 years ago. Thus 28-year-old Naval Aviator Edward H. O'Hare, who shot down five Jap bombers in the Pacific, damaged a sixth, in one flight from a U.S. aircraft carrier, had the week of his life...
Fighter pilots on sweeps noticed that German fighters avoided combat whenever possible, hanging on to flanks, hoping for stragglers with engine trouble. Luftwaffe fighters seemed to be under orders to fight only when necessary. The Nazis were apparently nursing their supplies and their flyers for an all-out assault on the Middle East and Russia. But with the R.A.F. hitting harder & harder, it looked as if Göring would have to get off his heels and do some fancy toe dancing to prevent the British from wrecking Nazi plans, throwing Hitler's timetable out of kilter again...