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...Those Dirty Rats." It went off with a bright flash and a stunning roar just as Reuther stood up, with a dish in his hand, to get some fruit salad from the refrigerator. Glass tinkled, the dish flew into a thousand pieces. Reuther spun, staggered and fell to the floor like a man who had been clubbed. For a second there was no more sound. Mrs. Reuther stood transfixed. Reuther lay on his back, industriously trying to move his bloody right arm and deciding, with the casualness of shock, that it had been blown...
Steve Pratt and Ted Bullard took their singles matches, Pratt pulling his into the credit column in a last minute flash of prowess. Number one doubles team, Vincent Brandt and Ted Backe, won the only doubles match completed...
...been with a French unit evacuated from Dunkirk. At a small English seaside hotel, under continual bombing, he had been astonished at the behavior of the two women hotelkeepers, who kept up their life as if it were a holiday season in peace. "I recognized in a flash," said the French priest, "we must be formidable too, and that it was possible-above all, that it was possible...
Crash warning radars were first demonstrated by Howard Hughes and installed on his Trans World Airline (TIME, May 12). They flash lights (some of them also sound horns or buzzers) when the plane comes within 1,000 or 2,000 feet of an obstacle, either ahead or below. Chief value: the pilot is warned that an unseen mountain, or other dangerous "terrain," is close. The warning gives him time to climb out of trouble...
Fifty-six hopefuls showed up for the flash-bulb barrage and then knocked and goosed the ball around in the short warm-up session...