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...Olympus jet engine is at least as powerful as the J-57, though it is not as close to production. (Reportedly, Wright Aeronautical is dickering to build the Olympus under license.) In the same power range, Westinghouse is already testing its new J-40, General Motors' Allison division is testing its new J-35-A-23 and General Electric has its J-47. Nobody knows what the Russians, who got some of Germany's best jet engineers, are making behind their curtain, but there is no reason to think that they are far behind. Midwives...
William F. Russell 6G announced his resignation as assistant conductor. He will be succeeded by Edmund P. Allison 2G. Russell will go to Pomona College, California, to conduct the choir...
...complaint to the London Times from Reader Peter Allison of Stapley Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, was headlined, A CRY FROM THE HEARTH. Reader Allison protested that it was "unforgivable" that "a journal so rich in tradition . . . should fall down on this one vital issue which affects every household in the country." The issue, according to Reader Allison: three times he had tried and three times failed to light his fire with a copy of the Times. If he failed once more, he planned to transfer his business "to a newspaper which shows more readily combustible qualities...
Last week fire-breathing readers of the Times hotly defended the paper. "Our copy of the Times burns beautifully," wrote Lady Balfour of Burleigh, "and by its very quality can be made to form a hard core which replaces and saves wood. Mr. Allison should have his chimney swept...
Editorial. In Lee's Summit, Mo., summarizing the year's events, the Journal took note of the fact that in July, ". . . Emery Allison [the Administration's unsuccessful candidate for the senatorial nomination] gave his approval of President Truman's Korean policy. Another wind damaged crops...