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...Medium (Walter Lowendahl) is the most skillful and imaginative effort so far to bridge the gap between movies and opera, but it still leaves the gap wide open. Shooting in Rome to gain atmosphere and save money, Composer-Librettist Gian-Carlo Menotti has preserved the musical values of his successful short opera while turning it into a curious mixture of sometimes effective, sometimes static cinema sequences...
Little Shaver. In Indiantown Gap, Pa., 13-year-old Private Robert Young was discharged from the Army after officers noticed that he had no whiskers...
Southern Hospitality. In Pennington Gap, Va., at the dedication of the new Lee County jail, Carpenter Lee Maness, the first workman on the building, over-celebrated, became its first inmate...
Fast Firing. In ten years, if all goes well, the U.S. will be equipped with guided missiles and proximity-fused spinning rockets. But right now the need is for a fast-firing, high-velocity 30-or 57-mm. cannon to fill the gap between pea shooters and rockets, and topnotch industrial engineers to design and produce them...
...Russians have already started to bridge this gap, while (presumably) waiting for accurate rockets. In Korea, one armament man pointed out, 40 heavily escorted U.S. B-29s were suddenly jumped by 80 Russian MIG-15 fighters. The MIGs knifed through the formations, shot down six of the bombers in the space of a few minutes. The MIG-15's armament: two 23-mm., one 37-mm. cannon...