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...Army says that although cabled technical advice from England is limited, many improvements have already been made on English mechanization. Among them: A Bren-type gun carrier whose crew is protected against dive bombers' bullets; infantry carriers that can move "right up to the battle"; a "garage trailer" carrying 90% of a modern service station's equipment...
Divorced. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., nomadic writer and onetime publisher; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; after six years' marriage, during which Mrs. Vanderbilt, his third wife, sought several times to file separation suits, was frustrated on each occasion because process servers could not locate the restless Vanderbilt trailer; in Carson City...
...underground for air-raid protection) on 6,000 acres of woodland. At first Charlestowners had been as elated as small boys by this windfall. But by last week their town had grown to 5.000. Where there had been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives in a truck with an oil stove to keep him warm. Wrote one harassed inhabitant in the Louisville Courier-Journal: ". . . Although we were paid well for our acreage, still it isn't so easy to stand by and see the familiar...
...tonic shipments in three months reached Kunming, upper terminus of the Burma Road. Reports differed as to how steadily the shipments would flow. The Japanese claimed hits on a vital bridge over the Mekong River; the Chinese said that no hits had registered and that new, giant ten-wheel trailer trucks were carrying the stuff of war into China faster than ever. But whatever the rate of future shipments, last week's token arrivals were worth their weight in dead Japanese...
...interviews. He did not do so badly on his own behalf. Appointed press attache to the French Embassy in Washington last month, he went from Vichy to Paris, outshouted the Germans, returned with 23 trunkloads of belongings, put them and his lovely Georgia-born wife in a car and trailer and drove all the way to Lisbon with a chauffeur who was under 40 and hence by terms of the armistice not supposed to be permitted outside France. Last week wangling Chariot Brousse brooked the first brake in a long and happy career...