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...gimmick does everything else, making corrections for wind pressure, the pull of gravity on the bullets and the speed of the enemy plane. Scrambling this information in its cogwheel brain, it tosses in the speed of the projectiles and automatically points the guns not to where the foe is, but to where he will be when the bullets get there. But the human element still remains: for results, the gimmick must have correct data, steady sighting...
Fitting Finish. Outwardly the orchestrators are reverent toward the composers whose work they are hired to pull into shape. But sometimes it takes a lot of pulling. Fats Waller, for example, gave Walker little more than some snatches of melody jotted on the backs of a couple of envelopes. But sometimes apparent trouble is easy to solve. While working on George Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Walker was approached by Gene Kelly, who staged the dances for the show. Kelly had definite ideas. Roared he: "The orchestra should go de-bump-bump-bump, wha-ah, crash, zip, bang...
...well-fed nation just beginning to pull in its belt after 19 months of war, there was still food aplenty. But it was at the wrong places, it was going to waste, it was being badly mismanaged...
After he has subdued his shadow, Bernie Baruch shaves himself with an old-fashioned straight razor. Then he climbs into old-fashioned long underwear (winter or summer), high-laced shoes with pull-straps at the back, and the suit his man Lacey has picked...
...intense loyalty of Bennett and Sorensen there can be no question. But as to how they will pull together - with Edsel gone - there is doubt. The empire has long been split into two warring kingdoms, with Bennett ruling one, Sorensen the other. Edsel Ford gave his tacit support to Sorensen, counteracting the tremendous influence Bennett has with Henry Ford. The scales are now tipped far the other way. This Tuesday Bennett was made a director (Sorensen was one already) at the same time that Edsel's widow and three other executives were added to the board. But Henry Ford...