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...over Britain to bomb inland objectives. So experienced had many a British "spotter" become that by ear he could tell a squadron of death-pregnant German Heinkels, going out to work, from a flight of British Blenheims returning from work. Meanwhile the Germans adopted new technique: sending a swift, lone leader at high altitude to lay a smoke trail to the objective, which the bombers followed at out-of-sight altitude. This technique was doubtless devised primarily for the benefit of new, sketchily trained German pilots who are sent out en masse with only rudimentary flight instruments simply to follow...
...most popular men in Washington is red-faced, white-haired John J. Dempsey, New Mexico's lone Representative in the House. Onetime water boy on a railroad, hard-working Jack Dempsey fought his way to success, then, with the profits of some Oklahoma oil, went to New Mexico to retire. Instead, he got into politics up to his neck. He first entered Congress in 1935. In six years, he saw 99 of his bills become law-a legislative record...
...castle of a Polish King, Mazeppa inspires a gaudy first-act curtain by shooting the fiance of the King's only daughter. Before the hoopla has subsided, Mazeppa, traditionally played by a curve-some female, has been tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their Taming of the Shrew, the role of the high-tempered stallion is reduced to comic relief. But riding one of his flesh-&-blood predecessors back in the 1860s, Adah Isaacs Menken, most celebrated Mazeppa...
...behind them. Jim Aldrich, Joel Ferris, and Jim Gruning round out the guard squad. Burgy Ayres has a strong hold on the pivot position, but Art Page, up from the Freshmen, and veteran Tom Grover are not out of the fight. Former Jayvees John Dimeff and "Lone Star" Dietz are other possibilities...
Maryland. Voters in Maryland's Democratic primary apathetically chose a wealthy china collector, Incumbent Senator George Radcliffe, over a wealthy fox hunter, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. A lone Republican gleam came only from the Sixth District, where onetime fireball Pitcher Walter Johnson was nominated for Congress, and granted a 50-50 chance of election. The "Big Train," now a farmer, brushed hog feed off the hands that once sent baseballs smoking, said modestly: "Gee whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws...