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...Quarterly, a sort of trade journal with a small circulation, nine British pundits have just completed a long, solemn look at radio in its larger social aspects. Since the British experts strongly favor their brand of radio, the assortment of brickbats and posies they lob at the U.S. will be particularly interesting to U.S. radiomen...
Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who watched the battle of the Jerusalem roads last week: "I stood on a high escarpment amid a crowd of Arab soldiers, watching their 105-millimeter Schneider howitzer lob big shells into Jewish convoys trying to round a perilous bend in the road, two miles away. A Haganah truck or armored car looked like a tiny beetle as it climbed slowly and unsuspectingly towards danger. As the howitzer fired, Arabs waited tensely for the shell to land, bony brown hands clutching at rifles, eyes narrowed to slits. Another instant and a black mushroom of smoke...
There were also, of course, the Australians: blond, ambidextrous Jack Bromwich, husky, lob-loving Dinny Pails, bespectacled Colin Long (Bromwich's doubles partner) and temperamental Geoff Brown. They, too, had a lot to do. For their final five days of intensive practice, they engaged a sparring partner-U.S. Professional Frank Kovacs, the champion screwball of all tennis players. The Australian problem was clear-cut but tough: in just eight months they were trying to lift their outmoded, prewar game to U.S. standards...
...overwhelming power, he is a sharp hitter who makes a habit of nonchalantly retrieving his opponents' put-away shots, and in the long run generally outfoxes them with craftily angled returns. His service is on the weak side, but he has developed a strong specialty-a deft lob with a mean spin...
...crews, the battle at this stage had a weird naval quality. A Fortress gunner watched a group of 18 twin-engined Me-110s circle from the rear, fly up in line three-quarters of a mile away; then, like torpedo boats, execute a superb 90-degree turn and lob their rockets simultaneously-"a broadside of rockets that seemed to burst in an unending line of red and yellow fire." Some bombers were under continuous attack for as much as 90 minutes; 24 hours later the men were still tense and grim-eyed, haunted by the strain of battle...