Some other new chaps started blazing away, too. Fritz retaliated with machine-guns and whizz-bangs. No casualties.

Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough.

[1965 Nov.] 13— The Chinese Navy sank four Chinese Communist gunboats off the Wuchiu Islands near the Chinese mainland.

[…] consumers don't understand chemical terms, and consumers really don't have a problem with slack fills, information and label type size.