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...Reader Davis apparently misunderstood TIME'S reference to the Bonhomme Richard, which was merely one example of how an inferior force can sometimes beat a superior...
...TIME'S tables of Japanese and U. S. tonnage, account was taken only of ships of each nation actually in the Pacific. Reader Davis adds to TIME'S list four U. S. battleships of the Atlantic fleet, subtracts four Japanese ships which have maneuvered and are ready to fight in the Pacific...
About Sept. 1 he plans to launch a new promotion drive. On it and the amount of new reader-appeal he can put into his paper will probably hang the fate of his experiment in journalism...
...voyage, as guardian of the Spanish King's interests in the New World. On the voyage his mind fumbles toward the invention of the sextant, the use of Indian hammocks at sea, of pumps for bilge, copper sheathing against marine borers. He is fascinated -and so is the reader-by every detail of medieval navigation, by Columbus (half inspired zany, fur-collared "thespian"), by the cloudy jumble of zombie myth and fetal science which throng Columbus' mind...
...sooner was the sun up than bells began to jangle louder than ever in the Free Press city room. Baffled again was Editor Martin until he managed to calm one reader down, demanded: "What on earth is wrong now?" Said his caller: "Hold that picture of Roosevelt up to the light." Editor Martin did. The swastika which appeared on the Roosevelt face showed through from an anti-Nazi cartoon on the reverse side of the page...