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Divorced. By Phyllis Haver Seeman, 46, bouncy, blonde bathing beauty of many an oldtime Mack Sennett custard-slinging silent film: William Seeman, 53, millionaire Manhattan wholesale grocer (White Rose brand); after 16 years of marriage; in Reno. Said she: "Bill has too much vitality. I'm getting older and want a little peace...
Stearns was made chief of its Operations Analysis Division. For 14 months, he and his technicians, whom G.I.s affectionately dubbed "longhairs," have fought as hard as any pilot to tame the brand-new and radically different Superfortresses. Gradually, sometimes by means mystifying to zealous ground crews, the bugs began to come out. Sample exterminations: ¶ The B-29's big engines were exploding when they caught fire. Dr. William J. Crozier, a Harvard physiologist, suspected that the magnesium-alloy parts blew up when they were doused by the carbon dioxide in the automatic fire extinguishers. Tests proved him right...
...huge new sister, the Consolidated B32, plus the newest versions of the battle-tested Republic P47 (Thunderbolt) and North American P-51 (Mustang) are the planes with which the Air Forces will mainly wage the Pacific air war. A brand-new type also to be included in the Air Forces front-line strength will be Lockheed's slick new jet-plane, the P-80 (TIME, March 12), on which veteran fighter pilots are now being trained. Of all the older standbys of the European Avar only a few Flying Fortresses will fight in the Pacific frontline, after redeployment...
...inexperienced troupe's inevitable handicap of poor playing in the walk-on parts and even in several of the principals. Guards and messengers border on the amateurish, and Helen Stone's portrayal of Queen Gertrude adds nothing to the play but disappointment. A badly-spoken Rosencrantz also serves to brand the performance as experimental and Bostonian...
...last penny of profit, and pulled out. His own plan: to organize a Mexican company, operated by Mexicans, and paying more than lip service to the Mexican economy. For himself he asked for a fair return on his investment, a traffic hookup between his two airlines. This brand of Yankee business easily won Mexican favor, plus route privileges to Tampico, Merida, Vera Cruz...