Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blare out cacophonous versions of Strauss waltzes, has been silent for weeks. The shouting, arm-waving throng of money changers has dwindled to a few clusters. Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway characters in Li'l Abner. The price of their coins, like the price of everything else, has climbed dizzily...
...Blue-eyed Suzanne, a whirlwind of a woman at 41, finds time to teach a children's class at the Juilliard School of Music and another class for elementary-school teachers at City College. She keeps house for her husband Paul Smith, head of Columbia University's mathematics department (and recorder virtuoso in Suzanne's ensemble). And she raises her two sons. Says Suzanne: "It keeps me normal...
...strictest military secrecy, Muroc Air Force Base is a strange sort of community. In all it does, it is dedicated to military aircraft performance, with special emphasis on speed. In the realm of speed it also has its king. He is Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 26, a modest, blue-eyed test pilot with an infectious grin and an easy West Virginia drawl. What makes Chuck Yeager outstanding, even among the crack pilots at Muroc, is the fact that his name is certain to go down prominently in aviation history books. Chuck Yeager was the first man to break through...
Besides being a notable buzzer, Chuck is a deadpan kidder. In spite of his blue eyes and fair skin, he is likely to assert solemnly that he is one-eighth Cherokee Indian. His parents say: "He's liable to tell you anything." Asked about his birthplace, Chuck says: "Ah come from so far up the holler, they had to pipe daylight...
...Rome, but "Paisan's" decision involved active people, not figures on a chart. And the difference shows up in the relative emotional punch of the two pictures. "Command Decision" is no waste of time; it is often funny and occasionally penetrating. It is well above the usual wild-blue-yonder movie. But it has been sufficiently made-up and costumed until its insight has been submerged under a lot of carefully cleaned-and-pressed brass...