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...force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...
...variations, the ball-handling quarterback forms the stem of the T, the other three backs the top crossbar. By any name, its razzle-dazzle pattern of spinners, flankers, man-in-motion, dive-tackle plays pack a wallop that makes scores and delights the fans...
Actually the G.I. black market too has acted as a safety valve by helping to break Paris' high prices. Cigarets are down from 300 francs a pack to 140; a 2-lb. can of coffee from 6,000 francs to 3,000. The prices of canned meats, cheese, cooked eggs are tumbling equally fast as well-supplied G.I.s and others mitigate the goods shortage...
Back down to the Pied Piper, where Maxie Kaminsky, Jimmy Johnson, Willie Smith, et al, still play the best Dixieland in the City and pack the bistro nightly ... Frankie Newton was bending an elbow at the bar and we adjourned to his apartment to admire his paintings ... No kidding, Frankie is doing some fine stuff and the Southern Comfort was fine... Newt has left George's but plays every Tuesday at the Pied Piper...
...Eraser Plane. Grumman designs his planes in the same informal manner Once he was trying to crack the tough problem of designing a plane whose wings could be folded back, making it possible to pack more on an aircraft carrier. With his feet cocked on his desk, he picked up a square gum eraser and a handful of paper lips and went to work. He stuck the clips m the eraser, worked them back & forth until he had the solution. He believes you can "see things that way you can't on a blueprint." Hellcat wings now fold back...