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...training than their predecessors had before the great expansion started. And the first 750 flying hours, when heady youngsters went into faster and heavier ships, were always the hardest, resulted in three times more accidents than the next 1,250 hours. Said General Dargue: "As long as the human element is the human element there will be accidents. When an emergency makes it necessary to train men rapidly, the experience curve will temporarily drop, the accident curve rise. It is regrettable, but there is nothing which can replace experience...
...accent that our American press and radio put now on the only ephemeral element in time-the present-exposes us dangerously to hysteria, to flotsam-and-jetsam thinking, judging and acting. Even more than a person, a people that would govern itself needs to be daily reminded that before this day time was, and after it time will be. Without this there can be no steady plowing through the calm and the storm, there can be only a tossing about on the wave...
...second band is the Jones Brothers, which I wrote about in regard to Roscoe. Besides playing the right kind of jazz, these boys are really top-notch showmen, and their novelty numbers--which incidentally have been featured with Harry James and Duke Ellington--have that element of spontaneity and life which you'll only find in colored entertainment, and which is sadly lacking in the run-of-the-mill Boston floor show. Last week I went overboard for Roscoe's tenor work. I've heard him several times since then and still haven't eaten my words...
...section of the North-Libyan cost, claiming a 10,000-ton ship at Bardia, three other sunk and three damaged elsewhere. This week the British admitted that one ship had been bombed, but said that a "large number" of Italian prisoners aboard her had been killed. Despite this new element, the British were confident that if they could reach Bengasi soon enough, they could make Rodolfo Graziani's last stand a one-man stand...
...other news of women in science, see p. 54.* Isotopes: atoms of the same chemical element which have different atomic weights. * Highest frequency that humans can hear is about 20,000 a second. Middle C on the piano is 256 vibrations a second; each octave going up doubles the frequency...