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...Hodgins, TIME'S Editorial Vice President, who was first Managing Editor, then Publisher of FORTUNE, before that was Managing Editor of the Youth's Companion, Associate Editor of Redbook. A graduate engineer, Hodgins is co-author of several widely-read scientific books. The New Yorker calls him "thin-haired, orbicular...
Jekyll v. Hyde. Said one woman, listening unaware to her own voice (which other observers described as "tender, shy, lovely"): "A discouraged person, cowardly, and an unstable character." Said another woman, looking at her own hands: "Unintelligent . . . brutally sensual." Cried another, confronted by her handwriting: "The writing is so thin-dash it-that one cannot see it. It makes me quite dizzy. I cannot say anything about this handwriting. . . . No, leave me alone, please...
...jungle warfare, tore into the Japs, killing 100. Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin, strafing stubborn units which still persisted in helpless defense...
Somebody at the Door is compounded of the stories of the people involved in the murder - Grayling, the murdered man, over 50, grey-eyed, thin, inquisitorial, cold, churchwarden, town councilor, Home Guardsman, petty grafter, a tyrant to his young and pretty wife; Renata, 38, brown-haired, self-seeking, moodily vengeful; Ransom, pickpocket, fugitive, a World War I veteran recovering his self-respect in the Battle of Britain; Mannheim, a German refugee chemist, possibly a spy, square, dark, smuggled out of Germany...
Long Live Blimp-But in the Daily Mail, thin-skinned Ward Price devoted an entire outraged column to the picture of Blimp's life: "To depict British officers as stupid, complacent, self-satisfied and ridiculous may be legitimate comedy in peacetime, but it is disastrously bad propaganda in times of war. ... In such times as these, when the respect and confidence of other countries are of vital importance to us, we cannot afford to put out a burlesque figure like this Colonel Blimp to go round the world as a personification of those British officers who . . . gave...