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James Stewart plays his usual role of a nice, intelligent, slightly bewildered, but withal noble-charactered country lad at large in the big city, with a reasonable persuasiveness. But he has had this same part for so long that it is getting to be a little on the tiring side...
With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful. Routine and deadly are sniping isolated German soldiers, drowning them in convenient canals. "Moffen (slang for Germans) cocktails" spiked with sulfuric acid were served so freely that Germans no...
Last December, as London lay almost helpless under Nazi air attacks by night, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding predicted with mysterious confidence, "Night bombing will be greatly reduced by spring." Since then repeated reports have come from England of Nazi raiders brought down in full darkness. Last week...
It granted to Joseph Lyman of Huntington, N. Y. a patent for a machine which uses radio beams to locate a plane in darkness or fog, plot its course through the skies on an indicator like a television screen. Anti-aircraft fire can thus be directed, it is thought, with...
Men who are at present receiving help in one form or another will not be left out. The part played by N.Y.A. finances will be that of trying to finish off the student-aid program of the T.S.E. and other benign agencies where they cannot help but fall short. Distributed...