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...Thin Man. In Manhattan, slim Lav Mitch, befuddled from a late party, lay down in the middle of a subway track, was awakened uninjured by policemen after at least one train had passed over...
...Veterans make their own fun." Mrs. Elsie Stapleton, budget expert, who recently toured the Graduate Schools on a survey of government financed education. declared yesterday. But what they need she warned was not entertainment or even budgeting. but a larger income to bolster their allotments already stretched thin by their large families...
...into an argument over which came first: the chicken of disarmament or the egg of collective security. Vishinsky favored the chicken, Connally the egg. With a swift change to another tried & true figure of speech, Vishinsky asserted that the atomic bomb was a sword of Damocles hanging by a thin thread, and demanded that it be abolished as a first contribution to disarmament...
...Franz and 87 other German air scientists are now living in a former National Youth Administration camp near Wright Field at Dayton, brain center of U.S. Army air power. Some of their names were still secret, but among them are men like 1) thin, nervous Dr. Alexander Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts...
T.W.A. had stretched its resources thin expanding into the glamorous field of overseas air transportation. But it would have skinned by without much trouble if the 25-day pilots' strike had not knocked it flat. By last week, T.W.A.'s financial position was worrisome enough to fill the air with more rumors than Constellations...