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Died. Ernest Bramah Smith (pen name: Ernest Bramah), 74, British writer of detective fiction (The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Max Carrados); in Somerset, England. A popular writer for some 40 years, he managed to keep his private life so private that little was known about him except that he had once lived in China, the scene of his famed Kai Lung stories. His widow asked that the place he died in be permitted to remain unnamed...
People who look at her portraits are apt to find themselves disconcertingly in the picture, by reflection. A well-grounded, competent artist in her own right, Mrs. Mullen concedes with reluctance that her material is now matériel. She says sadly: "If people would realize that a sheet of 10-gauge steel 6 by 18 ft. would only make one and one-half inches of battleship plate, and even then it's too thin...
...previous American observers, technicians, advisers into his organization; 2) expanded Italian installations in Eritrea into supply and repair bases ("We took up the job where they left off; it was very convenient"); 3) established schools to train British personnel on U.S. equipment, and so thoroughly familiarized them with U.S. matériel that he could now turn the schools over to them...
Still deep military secrets are the number of U.S. service troops in the area, the amount of matériel the United Nations have piled up, and the Allied plans...
...thawed out in the California sunshine. The others represented in San Francisco's exhibition were nearly all in their 30s or early 40s; Harwell Hamilton Harris, who used to be a sculptor, has been building houses for only seven years; his paper-paneled sliding doors, hip roofs and mat-floored interiors are strongly influenced by Japanese architecture and the work of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. William Wilson Wurster, who gets much of his inspiration from rambling, old-style California ranch-house architecture, has been building houses in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 16 years. Hervey Parke...