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...Beam. A pictorial computer for instrument flying is ready for production by Arma Corp., subsidiary of American Bosch Corp. Up till now, a pilot flying blind has had to figure out his position from radio data. The new, 37-lb. device picks up the data, computes it automatically and continuously plots a plane's exact position on a 10-in. luminous screen...
Wall Street's Financier Charles E. Allen, who bought Brill from Victor Emanuel's Avco Corp. a year ago and added it to his growing collection of U.S. companies (Colorado Fuel & Iron, American Bosch), likes Perelle's methods so well that he gives him a free hand. They both realize that the big Government orders make Brill, to some extent, a war baby. But Perelle hopes to have Brill strong enough, when rearmament is over, to stand on its own feet...
Gian-Carlo Menotti believes that "any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intensely he must sing it out." Standing before Hieronymous Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi one day in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Menotti felt the old intensity welling up inside. He found himself thinking about miracles of faith, and of his own childhood lameness which was cured-miraculously, he believes-when he was four. As he stood there, he knew he had the subject for his seventh opera...
...first opera ever to be commissioned for TV, and first to be sponsored (Hallmark Cards), Amahl was given a production of care and quality, with Bosch-like sets and costumes by topnotch Designer Eugene Berman. Next step for Amahl: a stage première at the Indiana University Opera Workshop in February. After that, Menotti is thinking about the possibility of its being double-billed (perhaps with The Medium') at New York's City Center Opera...
...Bosch was a sad, pious man with a consuming interest in the sins and stupidities of his fellows, and alternated debunking caricatures, such as The Magician, with huge, opalescent nightmare pictures which foreshadowed surrealism. The neat realism that characterized Flemish painting was as foreign to him as it was to the early masters of the Italian Renaissance...