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...taking care not to fold tabs behind washers (see Fig. 9). . . . Lock into box shape by inserting tabs C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L into slots C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L. . . ." - "with a bestial oath, I drove a safety pin through them and lashed them to the roof...
...points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...
Under the wing of Holding Carter, Mississippi's forthright Pulitzer Prizewinning editor, three 28-year-old veterans last month launched the Greenwood (Miss.) Morning Star. In their maiden issue they offered readers some pin money: $1 for each week's best news...
Lady Sylvia Stanley, ex-Lady Ashley, widow of Douglas Fairbanks, sued her titled third husband for $14,732 of household pin money, which she now considered a bad debt (recently he filed a separation petition, charging adultery). A London court awarded her $431.60. Lord Stanley's attorney, Sir Patrick Hastings, summed up his idea of the case: " 'Hell hath no fury...
...made one of the most disastrous errors in U.S. history, says Bullitt, when he furnished Lend-Lease aid to the U.S.S.R. without exacting, in return, assurances of a pacific Soviet foreign policy in the postwar period. Present U.S. leaders, Bullitt believes, will make an even worse error if they pin their faith to the "insubstantial pageant" of U.N. Bullitt believes that no doubt remains that Soviet aims stop short at nothing less than domination of the globe. Western Europe, the Middle East and the British Empire will, says Bullitt, merely precede the American hemisphere as victims...