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...like anybody else, but he had to be sent to an institution; he got well enough to come home from the institution, but he is still not well enough to go back to the office." Author Thurber's implied rejoinder is that readers who enjoy the spectacle of strait-jacketed Author Thurber should look to their own jackets. "Man," says Thurber, "would seem to be slowly slipping back to all fours, in spite of Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford and Robert Frost...
That summer the St. Roch weighed anchor, ran into the worst part of the trip. In Franklin Strait, said Skipper Larsen, "we drifted back & forth for nearly a month before we finally got clear. More than once we gave up hope of ever getting...
...copies a week to Latin America ever since last year. Here too the roll of TIME'S subscribers is a most distinguished one-including the presidents of six of our sister republics and a long list of important English-reading people from the Rio Grande to the Strait of Magellan. For example, the Consul General of Peru looked through the names of our subscribers in his country and was "very much impressed with the high representation in cultural and intellectual circles as well as the large amount of big business concerns and banking institutions" appearing there...
...There was some reason to believe what no official account claimed: that on Guadalcanal Island the Marines had driven inland from Sealark Strait and seized or immobilized the Japs' main airdrome in the lower Solomons...
Into the Funnel. From the Strait of Gibraltar "twenty steamers, escorted by three battleships (two of them of the Nelson class*), four aircraft carriers (the Eagle, Furious, one of the Illustrious class and one of the U.S. carrier York town class), numerous cruisers, several dozen destroyers and some smaller units" moved slowly into the Mediterranean Sea. This was the Italian report. If it was true, it was one of the greatest Allied naval concentrations in those waters since the war began. The destination: Malta...