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...flyer Gil Winant was absentminded. But he led a charmed life. The day before a big drive he came back from reconnaissance duty with 90 bullet holes in a wing and the motor half torn off. He took up another plane, had it shot from under him, spent the rest of the day in a third plane...
...that Sunday night General Gordon Bennett's sampan had bumped into a seagoing junk carrying six British officers. The General's party switched to the larger vessel, set an uncertain course for Sumatra. The torn page of an atlas was their only chart. Dawn found them in waters a scant half-mile from a Japanese-held island. Their food and water were nearly gone when an Allied launch picked them...
Fleeing from Poland to Italy and then through a war-torn France to Lisbon and the America-bound steamer "Excambion," Waclaw Lednicki, visiting professor of Slavonic literature has managed to keep one precarious step ahead of the Gestapo...
Part II, The World Is Your Adventure, settles down to Russia proper. It is the summer of great famine; the New Economic Policy is but a few months old. The torn political-economic tissues-which had bound Russia to Western Europe are beginning to mend, and European capitalists are coming to Moscow "like so many giant corpuscles working towards an abscess." Corpuscle Haverkamp and Corpuscle Champcenais are among them; their attitude towards Soviet Russia is that of imperial colonizers toward a savage kingdom. Warmer and more confused is the attitude of Minister Buitton and Jerphanion, who is his secretary...
Lane House, one of the University-owned private residences, was about to be torn down when it, too, was requisitioned by the Physics Department. Now equipped with power, fluorescent lightning, and benches, it services as laboratory space...