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Ships were still being sunk at an unhealthy rate. That they were being sunk in unhealthy places was indicated in a Navy Department announcement late last week. Three medium-sized U.S. vessels had been torpedoed in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, where fast submarines (about 20 knots surfaced) had popped up for the first time. Total of Atlantic sinkings off the Americas for the week...
...treatment a given art subject receives for protection rests on four elements: first, the resistance of the medium in which the object is executed, second its shape, third its rate of deterioration, and last in the case of restorations, the extent of repairs. The report of the conference also gives tables in which the materials are rated by their resistance...
...thus add philosophic depth to the poignant cry for lost riches in lyrics like "Prague." If, ultimately, it is in the more personal lyrics, such as "Dissertation on Whose Eyes" and "New York's Eve" that the poet seems to show the depest insight and finest command of his medium, his effort on contemporary affairs have a unique merit of their...
...again in 1937, Katharine Cornell was this time much more human, much less conscious of her own radiance. Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing. As the angular Prossy, Mildred Natwick, concurrently giving eight performances a week as the comic medium in Blithe Spirit, reached her comic high in Candida. But best of all was Private Burgess Meredith who, on leave from the Army with only four days to rehearse in, became the only bearable Marchbanks that anyone could remember -a winning poet rather than a whining...
...Detroit one automobile manufacturer is nine months ahead of schedule on airplane engines, another is delivering medium tanks seven months ahead...