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...future. For five minutes the street was clear as the marchers and the cavalry moved slowly on like figures from a military past, re-entering the past. Armored cars and soldiers on motorcycles began to stream by. Then three tanks, more armored cars, 42 light tanks, 18 medium tanks, another big batch of armored cars, trucks carrying pontoon bridges, kitchen trucks, trucks drawing six-inch guns, eight truckloads of anti-aircraft guns-the machines of war. They went by fast-15, 30, 40 miles an hour. The pavement shook. The afternoon air thickened and blued with gasoline fumes...
...pneumatic hammers, the shouts of glaziers and concrete workers, the huff-puff of switch engines. Work had to go on. For that building, 500 feet wide, more than a quarter-mile (1,380 feet) long, was to be the first quantity-production source of a most important weapon: medium tanks...
...site of the Detroit Tank Arsenal was a farm, turning brown and sere under a hazy autumn sun. During the summer Big Bill Knudsen had called bulky K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., and asked him, as one motormaker to another: Could Chrysler build the Army a medium tank? "K. T." said, sure. Could he see one to get an idea what it was like...
...Klinghoffer a good sendoff, 460 Park Avenue spruced up one of its best rooms, put on a show of 28 paintings and drawings, including portraits of such notables as Tenor Sergei Radamsky, tunbellied Author Hendrik Willem van Loon. For a portraitist with such a good address, Painter Klinghoffer is medium-priced, will do a muscled, Michelangelesque drawing for $60, a Rembrandtesque oil for $650. An expert at accurate anatomy and spitting imagery, Artist Klinghoffer has been working with charcoal, pen and pencil ever since she can remember. Says she, with a London-influenced Austrian accent: "I drew like that before...
...Donkey Inside is the book. Technically a travel book, it is as far superior to the type as Sterne's Sentimental Journey. It uses the sights & scenes of Ecuador as a medium for the exercises of a quick eye and an original mind. Bemelmans is the kind of person to whom strange, delightful things always happen...