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...seconds up, the boosters abruptly shut off and dropped away with their skirts. The central sustaining engine roared another 120 seconds or so, shoved the missile to its apogee 400 miles up. After a 22-minute hop through 2,700 miles, the separated nose cone splashed down for the longest and best flight of the nation's biggest bird...
...also a fact that Holloway's most loyal admirers are those who have served him longest or worked with him most closely. Reason: Holloway, veteran of 40 able and often illustrious years in the Navy, is first, last and all the time a thoroughgoing Navy...
...scholar and translator Monsignor Ronald Knox, for 13 years Oxford's wise, witty Roman Catholic chaplain, a group of old Oxonians, including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Philosopher-Critic C. S. Lewis, will set up a grant for Biblical or classical studies at the school longest associated with his name, Trinity College...
Called Omaha! ("shortest musical comedy and longest radio commercial ever produced"), it liltingly celebrates the joys of Omaha and only incidentally those of Butter-nut Coffee, which is packed there. After the orchestra swung through Freberg's lighthearted, tuneful spoof of Oklahoma!-type musicals, even skeptics who had come to hoot remained to hum. The mayor is recommending the adoption of the rollicking Whatta They Got in Omaha? as the civic anthem, Capitol Records has put out a recording with I Look in Your Face and I See Omaha on the flip side. More important, from Freberg...
...best story of the lot is the last and longest, The Eye of God in Paradise. Two doctors, a man and a woman, arrive in the Bavarian Alps on a skiing holiday. They are English and lovers, and each has lost a former love during the war. Both are generous, both are hopeful that the time of Hitler was a decent nation's inexplicable nightmare-but they run into enough of the Nazi mentality to live a nightmare of their own. Author Lessing's tale is too carefully loaded to be fully convincing or fair...