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...flying arsonists should be to start one huge, uncontrollable fire, not many small isolated ones. Slums are an ideal target, must be eliminated for defense if not for humanitarian reasons...
Among the tribulations of combat pilots are the flare of searchlights, the crump of bursting ack-ack shells. Another kind of flier, the duck, finds the same things just as annoying. Month ago the 198th Coast Artillery, at Camp Upton, L. I., postponed its aerial target practice because hunters complained that the firing was scaring away wild ducks. Last week the 198th fell foul of the birds again...
Last week's public hearings got off to a rowdy start. As Chairman Coudert announced rules of procedure, up popped a square-jawed young man with a black patch over one eye. He was William G. Mulligan, counsel for the Teachers Union, chief target of Mr. Windels' investigation. Mr. Mulligan demanded the right to cross-examine witnesses, was finally ejected by two policemen. Then Mr. Windels introduced his star witness, a genial Brooklyn College English professor named Bernard David Nino Grebanier...
Deep-seated cancers can sometimes be treated by Xray, but the treatment sometimes proves dangerous, because the X-ray may injure normal tissue. Doctors have tried to find an X-ray substitute which would hit only the diseased target and not ricochet. Last week Dr. John Meredith Kenney of Manhattan's famed Memorial...
Said Wendell Willkie: "We Americans know that the bitterness is a distortion, not a true reflection of what is in our hearts. I can truthfully say that there is no bitterness in mine. I hope there is none in yours. I was the target of most of the shafts and if I can forget, surely...