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Christopher Blake--At the Plymouth. Moss Hart's first play since his wartime pageant, "Winged Victory,' and a very controversial drama it is. Reactions to it have varied all the way from a "shoo-in for the Pulitzer Prize" to "not a success," with many puzzled audiences unable to make up their their minds. It deals with the problem of divorce and leans heavily (some say too heavily) on dream sequences, with the crisis coming in the child's choice between his mother and father. At any rate, it is a theatrical experience of high order...
Died. Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, 74, onetime research engineer who invented and spent his life developing a successful turbosupercharger for airplane and automobile engines, received belated recognition during World War II when America's Superforts, equipped with his supercharger, climbed to unprecedented heights, were given an insuperable advantage over enemy air forces; in Lynn, Mass...
...season in the theatre continues to develop as the most promising in the past eight or nine years, with almost every major American playwright being represented either with a new play or with a revival. The latest entrant into the field is Moss Hart, whose new play, "Christopher Blake," is now in the second of its three weeks at the Plymouth...
...Peru. On the puna, the more-than-two-mile-high sierra, the saffron moss took a little spring rain and greened. The llama, alpaca and wild vicuña prospered. Beyond the Divide, where the tributaries of the Urubamba, ancient river of the Incas, flow down their slotted valleys toward the Amazon, the oxen pulled the wooden plows across the tiny fields. It was not unusual to see as many as ten teams interminably plowing a valley acre terraced with the stones of the Inca...
Near Fairbanks, the Army has laid down 20 runway sections insulated from the permafrost by layers of cellular concrete, asphalt, foam glass, gravel, moss and spruce boughs. Under each runway are thermometers to measure heat penetration. For buildings, the trick is to rest the walls on thick mats of insulating material, or allow cold air to circulate freely under heated floors. Roads will be insulated, too, to keep foundations frozen under thundering tanks and trucks...