Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best: a compassionate scene of two old Bowery bums. Under the El, by Manhattan's Jack Levine; a primitive allegory, Fishers, Simon and Peter, by Manhattan's C. Murray Foster; a biting satire, Tension, by St. Louis' Siegfried Reinhardt, which showed a straining rooster, a bird hanging by its neck, a boy stretching a string, and a man twisting the boy's head...
...Better Bird Dog. Cessna Aircraft Co. flight-tested a two-passenger plane powered by Boeing's small turboprop engine, the world's first turboprop light plane. A piston-powered model of the plane, the "Bird Dog" has been widely used in Korea on observation missions. The turboprop version, which has a cruise rating of 175 h.p., is lighter than earlier models, and has somewhat longer range and can operate on all grades and ranges of fuel, a big advantage in combat zones...
...newspapers slowly, reluctantly turned away from the election. The New York Times one day found itself with enough space on its hands to report that Cambridge zoologists were experimenting with carrier pigeons to whose wings they had strapped tiny cameras-to find out whether "a bird of the opposite sex [can] lure the messenger from the straight & narrow beeline for the home loft." Similar experiments were going on among the human species. Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra were apparently reconciled after their recent spat and took off, cooing, for London. Marilyn Monroe (see CINEMA), on the other hand, was showing...
...unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Out of the loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...
Fire Fighters. Among the educational toys are light-up maps and the "Magic Speller" ($3) whose picture cards, when inserted in a slot, rack up simple words like "bird" and "bear" for a child to copy on a miniature blackboard. The Tom Thumb typewriter is a real working model ($19.95). Prospective architects can try their hand with "Blockbusters," big, cor rugated-paper blocks capable of holding more than 200 lbs. (twelve blocks for $5.95). Radio hams can assemble their own crystal sets ($2.50). One of the best bargains for budding mechanics: the plas tic "Fix-It" automobile. Its battery, radi...