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...starter, we had the names & addresses of our 418 pre-war French subscribers. Our Paris office augmented this list with candidates chosen from pages torn out of directories, telephone books, Who's Who (prewar edition), from lists of Government officials, doctors, lawyers, university professors and other professionals, businessmen (especially those engaged in foreign trade), teachers of English, etc. To decipher and cull these lists, remove duplications, get the correct addresses and salutations, we hired five French girls who knew their France...
...conjecture: his speed may have passed the dreaded limit of "compressibility" when the air streams pass the wing or control surfaces at the speed of sound (TIME, Sept. 23). A "standing sound wave" may have formed, clung like a yammering banshee, and torn the plane to shreds. Perhaps Captain De Havilland crossed that sonic threshold only to discover, in Hamlet's soaring words...
...London's airport King George kissed his pretty cousin Marina, Duchess of Kent, and shook hands with Archbishop Strenopoulos Germanos. Then a big British Lancaster bore him off to his strife-torn kingdom...
White Violet. Tito and his paladins have chalked up some notable achievements in the physical reconstruction of Yugoslavia. In many villages, men still wear sackcloth trousers, and women cannot leave their houses for lack of clothes. But things are a lot better in Yugoslavia than in other war-torn countries (UNRRA aid to Yugoslavia has amounted to over 327 million dollars since April 1945). Tito has managed to keep most people ignorant of the fact that UNRRA supplies are free. In Belgrade recently, Yugoslavs in G.I. shirts and British army boots demonstrated in trucks, shouting: "Give us arms. We want...
...Mauricio Hochschild. There are leftists in the junta too, but no known Communists. Offstage, among the tough Indian miners, there are powerful leftist forces. Now they may go over to scholarly José Antonio Arze who is marshaling his P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) for position. But he is torn between desire for power and fear that, once in command, his Socialist program might fail. Marxist Arze, who says he is no Communist, well knows that Bolivian Socialists can never nationalize and operate the tin mines so long as all the smelters are abroad...