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Leonide Massine. Diaghilev alumnus, specialist in grotesque character dancing, creator of some 40 successful ballets, now with the Ballet Theatre. A decade ago Massine churned an esthetic storm with his ambitious, often impenetrably symbolic ballets. Since then he has reverted to the bumptious, exuberant, satirical style of his most admired works (Gaité Parisienne, Three-Cornered Hat, La Boutique Fantasque, Mademoiselle Angot...
...Timberlake is one of the Army's hardest-hitting bomber commanders, a crack pilot and specialist in B-24s. His brother, burly Brigadier General Patrick Timberlake, 43, formerly chief of the U.S. Ninth Air Force's Bomber Command in the Middle East, is now one of the Ninth's top planners. Their eldest brother, Brigadier General Edward Wrenne ("Ed") Timberlake, perversely became an expert in shooting planes down, and now commands the anti-aircraft defenses of Washington...
Thunderbolt (Republic P-47). First fought in the European Theater only a few months ago on a large scale, the turbosupercharged P47 is a hard-hitting, high-altitude specialist. Heavy as the familiar Ford trimotor, it has been used almost exclusively as a long-range bomber escort (as at Emden). Bombers run into comparatively little trouble when P-475 are escorting. The P-475 themselves, against German fighters, knocked down 5.8 German aircraft to every P47 that was lost in one recent month. Its overall ratio, from a fairly unimpressive start...
Caleb Frank ("Turk") Gates Jr., 39-year-old chancellor of the University of Denver, .Princeton football and track star of the '20s, son of the longtime president of Robert College in Constantinople, won a major's commission in the Army's Specialist Reserve, will probably be sent to Turkey as an intelligence officer...
Personable, witty Erwin Panofsky came to the U.S. from Germany in 1934. At the University of Hamburg he taught art history, made an international reputation as top-rank specialist in several branches of his subject (notably medieval German sculpture, Dürer, Michelangelo, the Italian Baroque). From visiting professorships at New York University and Princeton, he went to the recently established (1933) Institute for Advanced Study...