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...mountain ranges, Colorado Springs is one of the least bombable of U.S. cities. Its Fine Art Center, providently built six years ago with lavish backing by Art Patroness Alice Bemis Taylor, contains ample storage space for 2,000 paintings, is honeycombed with strong-walled concrete galleries, corridors and sub-basements. Last week, masterpieces from San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C. were making for that bombproof shelter at the rate...
...World War I, the blimp was widely used to combat the sub. It protected the coasts of England and France, was the first thing that greeted the A.E.F. transports as they headed into European ports. Although the British had 190 blimps in service, they lost only a scattered few, even though they were filled with highly inflammable hydrogen...
...midget submarines destroyed at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy found the other half of its two-man crew still tightly wedged in the ship's bowels. Unable to scoop it out conveniently, the Navy sliced a 15-foot after-section from the core of the sub and, with full Naval honors, laid the makeshift coffin to rest in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard...
Mahatma Gandhi, 72, last week resigned the leadership of his Indian National Congress 'party. With the roar of Axis guns growing louder in their ears, many of Gandhi's sub-leaders could no longer follow his ways of non-violent resistance. Most of them are babus (educated men) who want political careers in an independent (or dominion-status) India and cannot imagine getting them from Adolf Hitler or Emperor Hirohito. The Mahatma would no longer try to lead men who would not follow. Rather than step from his principles, the ascetic little lawyer stepped from his leadership...
Oswald Jacoby's wife, Tennist Mary Zita McHale, got a job as a factory hand (hydraulic sub-assembly work) in the Dallas plant of North American Aviation. Onetime holder of national tennis championships in municipal contests, bridge tournament partner of her famed husband (now with OPM in Washington), she said she was having the time of her life as a factory hand, was spending all her wages on defense bonds...