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When one man gives forth with a sweeping ukase that shakes a $150,000,000 industry, threatens to run upward of 500 radio stations out of business, and cuts off one of the American public's favorite forms of entertainment, indignant emotions and explosive issues are bound to boil over. And so the order of music's muscle man, J. Caesar Petrillo, that a week ago Friday stopped dead the cutting of all new phonograph records, has been dynamic in its repercussions. These have ranged all the way from a patriotic appeal by Elmer Davis and Peglarian accusations of dictatorial...
...Network men were able to make it, when Richard Kleeman '44 introduced the program from the ground floor steps of Grays, middle entry. With the enticing words, "We now take you where you yourself will never be," he introduced Kilte, the privileged one who carried onward and upward into the entry...
...Eighth Army as a whole is greener to the desert than it used to be. Its veteran core-upward of 50,000 leathery Australians-was called back to defend its homeland...
...desert, hot enough to fry the traditional egg on a glider's duralumin fuselage. But the heated air rises, forming the welcome "thermals" which keep a glider aloft. The special glider dashboard instrument is a variometer, which shows a pilot whether he is in one of these upward thermals or in a downward air current...
...dodge the U.S. bombs. The maneuver failed. So did the efforts of the cruisers, firing shells into the water ahead of low-flying torpedo-planes, hoping they would fly into the geysers. Bombs ripped into the Ryukaku, mantling her decks in smoke and flame. A gun mount soared lazily upward, curved overside into the sea. Then the torpedoes struck home, squarely amidships. Later the Navy said that at least 15 bombs and ten torpedoes hit the Jap ship. The Ryukaku had completed her third circle when she sank, with most of her planes still aboard. Aboard the Lexington, radio receivers...