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...Engine & Airplane, Martin, Northrop, Republic-are at work. All told, they are making only 215 planes a month, compared to World War II's peak (in March 1944) of 9,117. For the U.S. to reach such a figure again, as United Aircraft's President H. Mansfield Horner pointed out last week, would require three full years of production. It would take the aircraft engine industry a full year, said Horner, to triple today's production of 5,000 engines a year, another year to boost production sevenfold. At the end of the third year it could...
...escape from the close confinement exercised by her aging roue husband (Pinchwife) into the gay, loose world of London society; the second is a triangle between Pinchwife's sister, the fop Sparkish, and the wit Harcourt; the third involves the bold and unquestionably piquant attempt of one Mr. Horner to pass himself off as recently castrated, in order to gain access (for purposes easily imagined) to the wives and daughters of unsuspecting friends and associates. How these plots are connected and what strategems are used by the various contestants (people in the seventeenth century were crafty beyond all measure) defy...
William Tregoe is good in the routine part of Harcourt, and Robert Fletcher likewise good as Horner, who has little to recommend himself as a character beyond the diabolic ingenuity of his scheme...
...sentimental favorite among the less important characters is Phillippa Bevans' performance as Lady Jasper Fidget, one of the ladies who partakes of Horner's favors. Miss Bevans brings an unexpected matronly air to the part of an adultress and delivers her lines with invincible good nature befitting her portly appearance. Like Mr. Ritchard she puts more into the part than Wycherley called...
Five men will enter each event, and the best four will score. The Crimson skiers are Hart, Wasserman, Dwight Black, Henry Horner, Don Justice, Skid Lund, Frank Scully, Jim Weaver, and Dick Wilson...