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On a rainy day in Manhattan, Lord Dunsany, 74-year-old Irish poet-playwright, believer in fairies and master of the fantastic, arrived on the Queen Mary for his first U.S. visit in 30 years. Before he flew off to spend the rest of his vacation in California, a New...
Even in these jittery times, people don't talk fast enough to suit University of Illinois Professor Grant Fairbanks. The ear, says Fairbanks, is quicker than the tongue, and words can be understood faster than they can be spoken. Determined to work the human ear to capacity, Fairbanks and...
Ice from Alaska. Back of double doors in another lab, a circular saw slices paper-thin samples from huge ice crystals chopped from Alaska's Mendenhall glacier. In still other labs, at even colder temperatures (down to -77° F.), other work is getting under way: food preservation, sewage...
"The Pentagon Jungle." The Sarnoff Commission's recommendations were the outcome of four months of bitter experience in what the report called "the Pentagon jungle." Established by Harry Truman's Defense Secretary Robert Abercrombie Lovett last October, the commission soon reached the conclusion that the armed services were...
During the late '30s, Root slacked off his buying. But after World War II, he started picking up samples of the new abstract art. He was one of the earliest to buy Theodoros Stamos' dreamily delicate work, Jackson Pollock's paint-spattered canvases, and Mark Tobey'...