Word: armored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artist Boris Artzybasheff has a cool, ex-machine gunner's eye that can ruffle even the armor of a battleship, and has. With a knack for spotting an ogle where an I-beam ought to be, Artzy has been doing covers for TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations...
...high drama a breathless hush pervades the air of Poussin's painting. The artist's delight was in the spacious landscape, towering Alban hills, the pleasant villa under blue skies and the rich glitter of jewels and armor. The painting keys perfectly to Poussin's own view of himself: "My natural disposition forces me to seek and cherish orderly things, avoiding confusion which is as contrary to my nature as is light to obscure gloom...
...survey, led by Philip E. Jacob, social sciences professor at the University of Pennsylvania, reports that "the chinks in the moral armor of American students are most obvious...
...tests last year of National Guardsmen in summer camp and Army recruits completing eight weeks' basic training, 25,000 Guardsmen drawn from all 27 Guard divisions were ranged against 7,000 Army recruits in such soldierly accomplishments as scouting and patrolling, defense against armor and the use of the gas mask. Guardsmen outmaneuvered the Army in dismounted drill, a Guard specialty, and night training (in which neither group scored high). But overall, 84% of the Army recruits passed the tests satisfactorily, compared to 56.5% of the Guardsmen. The inference: Guard recruits would benefit from six months' active-duty...
Weeds & Wages. Jessop's business of high-grade steels for high-speed tools had gone to pieces in World War II, when it concentrated on defense items, e.g., armor plate, failed to recover its peacetime customers. By 1948 Jessop was almost bankrupt. Then in came a new boss. Frank B. Rackley, 33, whose blacksmith father had encouraged him to read and believe Horatio Alger. While working as a $13-a-week office boy in Pittsburgh, Rackley studied metallurgy at night school, was named Western manager for U.S. Steel's stainless and alloy division when still...