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...Tactical Air Command, it will, in effect, give airborne outfits a separate air force of their own for the first time. Pilots and crews of the Eighteenth will train and work hand in glove with the Sand Airborne Division at nearby Fort Bragg, N.C. on the highly complex problems of airloading men and equipment and dropping them on a pinpoint target on split-second schedules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Airborne's Air Force | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...real glory, however, belongs to Mr. Munch--first, for his decision to perform the piece; and secondly, because he approached this complex work with an acute sense of its drama. That, in fact, is the keystone of all Passion music. Bach composed the music to follow the sense of the words closely, and has subtle devices for accomplishing this make a fascinating study, one which Mr. Munch evidently had made...

Author: By Apolion Musagetas, | Title: The Music Box | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

...bureau's work falls into two main categories. The first, testing, is an outgrowth of its early weights & measures work. Almost everything that can be tested is tested by the bureau, including building materials, airplane parts, chemicals, complex laboratory instruments. At present the bureau is investigating dental materials, a business -that is notoriously unstandardized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireflies, Knees & Fuses | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...eyes open." é"The reason I like painting from nature is that you can't beat it. God is the greatest artist. You can't imagine anything nearly as rich." é"Good taste is a great curse to the nation. It spells only one thing, an inferiority complex. People can't afford bad taste because it means they're jerks, that they don't belong. If this keeps up, no one will spit on the floor any more." é"It's a good life, being a painter. You can live like a millionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Obiter Dicta | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...other, all within fifteen minutes. Except for an amusing performance by Kay Levy the acting was choppy and hampered by a pointless script, the last part of which consisted of quite a lot of words in no particular order. Lyon Phelps' "3 Words in No Time" was the most complex of the plays, but despite careful staging and impressive delivery by Thayer David and Jerry Kilty, it was not entirely coherent...

Author: By Daniel Elisberg, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/1/1951 | See Source »

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