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That far-end clearance-once the hope of China-would be futile if Kunming fell. And in any case it was plain that China, in her darkest days ahead, would have to depend upon airborne supplies. General Wedemeyer said the air tonnage was increasing. But as the Japs advanced, it was also clear to the wearied, worried Chinese that supplies by air could not be the complete answer, that what the Allies had done thus far had not been enough...
Because exhibitions as varied in content as "Art of the United Nations" depend considerably on good showmanship, the Institute hired a topnotch designer to install it: 37-year-old, Hungarian-born Gyorgy Kepes (pronounced Keppish), now teaching at Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes...
...they had it going in eight days. No. 6, hopefully named The Rangoon Limited, went to work last week. But in the absence of coal, the wood-burning engines are limited to short runs. The M.M. & M., which now extends southward beyond Mo-gaung, will have to depend on the jeep to pull it through eventually to Mandalay...
They found that the various strands in a bundle of nerves, like the wires in a telephone cable, differ in the impulses they transmit; that individual nerve cells are "like tubular electrical condensers"; that the impulses of pain depend on the tiniest nerve strands...
...small number (probably five to ten) of administrative officers. They will be trained at the WAVES officer-candidate school at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., will then be assigned to assist in general enlistment and training, beginning soon after January 1. The total number of Negro WAVES will depend on the "needs of the service" will probably not be large...