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...Culver City, Calif., mechanics wheeled out the world's largest known helicopter for its first test flight last week. As the 125-ft.-long rotor blade began to twirl, the monster whirlybird rose aloft and flew around the field at a height of about 40 feet for 8.9 minutes. The XH-17, built for the Air Force by Planemaker Howard Hughes, is designed to lift for short distances loads of several tons (e.g., artillery, bridge sections, tanks and trucks) by straddling them like a lumber carrier. Power is provided by two General Electric turbojet engines astride the fuselage plus...
Though all the play's ideas are familiar and many of its situations are inept, it has its interludes of fun; had Shaw but written it 60 years earlier, it would undoubtedly have been said to show promise. As it stands, it is simply a vehicle-a monster bulldozer-for Actress Hepburn, who bangs about in it with gusto. She has come far from the days when Dorothy Parker described her as running the gamut from A to B. In The Millionairess she runs it from ff to fff. The effect is often enjoyable and ultimately monotonous...
...varsity finally broke through to win in 1941 after the burning in effigy of an Indian in a monster pre-game rally. The only Crimson victory since then took place in 1946, although Harvard got a three-year reprieve because...
Before Freud, Bluebeard was a fairytale monster with a pleasantly chilling tendency toward murder. After Freud, Bluebeard's libido became a subject for reexamination. The late composer Bela Bartok and Librettist Bela Balasz were quick to see the possibilities, in 1911 put the theory into the form of a one-act opera, Bluebeard's Castle. It was staged for the first time in the U.S. last week by the New York City Opera...
Come off it, TIME ! . . . Your persistence in printing in full Ike's pedestrian and platitudinous prose and in depicting Governor Stevenson as a facetious, popeyed monster, if continued until Election Day, may well drive me into casting a Democratic ballot...