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With the spies came the bombs, sprayed by wave after wave of Soviet planes. In the clear cold air they flew high, trailing a thin line of vapor from their exhausts, dropping clusters of small bombs that burst into flames when they hit. Systematically the Russians went after every centre of communications: railways, telegraph and telephone centres, roadheads, bridges, factories. (They got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis.) This meant that civilians had to bear the brunt of the bombings. Typical of the destruction wrought was the case of Sortavala, vital railway junction on the north...
...Esteban Valderrama, 47, director of a Cuban art school, leading portrait painter of Havana, this winter was commissioned by the Cuban Senate to paint a portrait of President Roosevelt. A great admirer of President Roosevelt is thin, excitable Dr. Valderrama. He hopes that when his portrait is hung in the Cuban Senate it.will be inscribed "President Franklin D. Roosevelt-Author of the Doctrine Good Neighbor." Painter of many a Cuban notable, Dr. Valderrama has developed a theory that every man has his special color, thinks the color of heavy-featured Cuban President Laredo Bru is pálido (pale...
...Chinese heroes whose exploits long ago became legend was General Ma Chan-shan ("Giant Horse"). General Ma was no giant (5 ft. 8 in.), but he was an expert horseman. Thin, nervous, explosive, scratching his chin or mustache as he talked, General Ma smoked a little opium for pleasant dreams, woke from them fresh for action at 5:30 every morn ing. Operating in the far north, he organized a fantastic-appearing but formidable cavalry force made up mostly of Mongols and Manchurians, whose feet almost dragged on the ground astride their tiny Mongolian ponies. They wore badges on their...
...American Place, last week opened the result of his wife's trip: 20 paintings, including the two for Dole. The other 18 were for sale, at prices ranging up to $4,000. Best sequence: four glowing canvases of green mountains and black rocks, each held together by thin white wisps of waterfalls. Critics agreed that Georgia O'Keeffe was still tops among U. S. woman painters, mused over her Steinesque catalogue note : "If my painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me, I may say that these paintings...
...Prestone-cooled, inline Allison, is not in the nose, but behind the pilot. Built for sleek streamlining, the twelve-cylinder Allison (made by General Motors) drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room up front for Airacobra's most deadly fang: a 37-millimeter (1½ |inch) cannon which fires through the propeller hub. Alongside its cannon, biggest carried by any single-engined pursuit ship, are two .30-calibre and two .50-calibre (½inch) machine guns...