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September 19, 1942

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LAST OF THE SPECIES--I

Geoffrey T. Hellman

PROFILE of Frank Crowninshield. Once during a match at the Links Club in which Crowninshield beat Fontaine Fox one up, the cartoonist muffed the drive on …

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Celestial is the Real Thing.

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REPORTER AT LARGE about a navigators' training flight. Description of the tiny cubicle that houses the executive brain of the bomber. The rest of the …

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