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Floating airports have been an engineer's dream for years. The sober Lords of the Admiralty claim that the Lily stays fairly flat when jolted by waves 35 ft. high, can be quickly assembled or towed to any desired spot. A Lily with larger, deeper buoys would allow trans-ocean airplanes to land...
Some U.S. correspondents in Tokyo who got there before the Army found themselves in trouble with various authorities. The Jap Foreign Office said they could attend a Diet session only if they were 1) unarmed; 2) sober; 3) willing to promise not to eat in the galleries. They appealed to General MacArthur, who got the other provisions relaxed, but told them not to carry arms. Then he ordered newsmen three paces to the rear for the official entry into Tokyo. Said he dryly: "It is not American military policy for correspondents to spearhead the occupation...
...foreign policy (TIME, Aug. 27). His denunciation of Soviet-backed Balkan Governments and refusal to countenance intervention in Spain shocked left-wingers who looked for sweeping changes. Editorialized the Communist Daily Worker: "This is not yet the lead which millions of service and home voters . . . are waiting for." More sober and more traditional was the sizing-up of the Manchester Guardian: "British foreign policy, as Mr. Bevin expounded it, is not a matter of party...
...Sober-sided New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin rumbled: "There is not much use blinking the fact that . . . the Japanese had made us look like monkeys- not on the battlefield, but since fighting virtually ceased...
Readers Wanted. The new Pic is a slicker two-bit, Esquire-like 120-page monthly aimed directly at the homebound G.I. Its thesis is that soldiers who yearned over pin-up girls in foxholes and wolf-howled in Paris will come home more sober and serious. To win them, Pic plans career pieces ("How G.I.s Can Become Farmers"), designs for living ("First Civvies in Five Years") and sidebar ticklers ("Widows Are Dangerous...