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...Corsets: "Like armor. . . . Sitting down becomes an accomplishment...
...boasting, but with the assurance of experience and of deep, intelligent study, Chennault taught his early pilots to minimize the P-40's disadvantages and utilize its advantages : greater fire power, heavier armor for pilot and fuel, sturdier construction, a much higher diving speed. He also insisted on using a tight, flexible and ecomical two-plane formation. He discouraged dog-fighting by individual pilots. Essence of his teaching: hit hard, hit precisely, hit as a team...
...Fields; music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by Mr. Rodgers) is not a straight revival. Suspecting that nobody would walk a mile for a Camelot he saw 16 years ago, Messrs. Fields, Rodgers & Hart have redecorated King Arthur's court - waxed the Round Table, polished the armor, restrung the harps, put a Navy uniform on the startled and startling visitor. The result, despite a slow start and a rather trying book, is a likable and lilting piece of Yankee-panky...
...troops behave under fire is the test of all military training and leadership. More than arms and armor, the basic elements in any battle are the human factors loosely called "fear" and "courage." This week a scholarly analysis, Fear in Battle tried to put these imponderables into statistical form. Its author: Professor John Dollard, research associate in social anthropology in Yale's Institute of Human Relations...
Throughout the amazing interior is a collection of museum pieces and antiques--the result of an unfortunate habit of 'Poon alumni of storing their attic overflows in the Sanctum. A fine suit of medieval Japanese armor stands at the south window of the Great Hall, and has occasionally been donned by the President during police raids. The window itself contains pieces of 14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England...