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Among CBS's recent innovations: > Chapter One, an experiment by the Columbia Workshop (CBS, 2:30-2:55 p.m. E.W.T., Sundays). In the belief that much good writing is also good radio, Workshop workmen attempt to transfer a chapter of a book to the air without adapting (i.e., rewriting...
Chouteau's best efforts, however, will probably be registered in the 440, where he is defending champion. His marks in the quarter mile have twice this season broken Bill Kendall's old dual meet record of 4:50.5 and Chouteau is now exactly three seconds under this time. John Storrs...
On an afternoon in late May 1940, when the French collapse "was so entire that death itself seemed to us absurd," Pilot Saint-Exupéry, his observer Dutertre and his young gunner were ordered to make a reconnaissance sortie over Arras. They were one of 50 reconnaissance crews in...
A little later, he got the full revelation. On the left "great slabs of light among the showers" shone like the panes of a cathedral while he moved "gently forward, swaying to right and left like a loaded hay-wain," towards Arras, which stood at the root of a tree...
Saint-Exupéry's work seems to come from the center of great and steely pressures, at the intersection of scientific and poetic knowledge. Sometimes the pressure is too intense, producing mere conceits or wild generalizations. But usually he holds his stratospheric insights under complete and Gallic intellectual...