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...makes sure to run college favorites. He's run all of the Guinesses, most several times. The un-American stuff at the Exeter, Kenmore and Beacon Hill all makes its way to the local popcorn emporium, as long as it's in our native tongue...
...newspaper empire that John Shively Knight built, the boss's brother, Jim Knight, has played a secondary role. It was the elder (by 15 years) brother Jack who took full charge of the Akron Beacon Journal in 1933 on the death of their father, and led the expansion into four other cities. It was Jack Knight, too, who sold the prosperous Chicago Daily News three months ago to Marshall Field Jr. (TIME, Jan. 19). "All I wanted to do," Jack said then to those who speculated on the imminent dismemberment of the chain, "was relax a little, and give...
Steady Platform. In the blockhouse, Debus listened as the clipped argot of the missilemen's countdown came over the loudspeaker: "Telemetry-on. Radar beacon-on. DOVAP*-on." Hundreds of men both in and out of the blockhouse were doing thousands of things. The rocket itself had come awake. In its guidance section, a gyroscopically stabilized platform was accurately aligned with the intended course. When the rocket rose into the sky, the platform would keep steady in space, allowing the rocket's computer brain to steer by it as if it were both a compass and a horizon...
...organization, Arlington Books, Inc., has reduced overhead to a minimum, with its only office in Bledsoe's home. All editors and advisers contribute their services without pay except Bledsoe, who left his job with the Beacon Press to work full time on the new enterprise...
...usual Arthur Freeman has written the nicest things in the issue. Two little poems "Atthis" and "A Pigeon Killed on Beacon Street" move quickly with their short lines and light rhythm; and a delightful irony masks satire in one and resignation in the other. Piero Heliczer's two poems are more lyrical. In P, his lack of punctuation, paucity of long syllables, and predominance of soft consonant sounds combine to produce an attractive whispering quality...