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Frederick Brant Rentschler, boss of Pratt & Whitney and its parent United Aircraft Corp., thinks the J57 has more pizzazz than any other engine. Says he flatly: "It is more powerful than any jet engine ever flown." Moreover, he thinks the J57 has gone a long way to overcome a great handicap of jets, their enormous fuel consumption. United's engineers say that it uses less fuel than anybody else has even promised for an engine of its size...
...Margaret Coit's John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, a sympathetic and fair study of the great diehard South Carolinian. Catherine Drinker Bowen put too much fictional gloss on solid John Adams and the American Revolution, but it was the first biography to make him seem wholly human. Irving Brant finished the third volume of his massive James Madison, and William Harlan Hale wrote a fresh, readable Horace Greeley...
...depends on the gasoline engine," said Joseph Stalin in 1941. "The country with the biggest output in engines will be the ultimate victor." It was no comfort to ex-Ally Stalin last week that Frederick Brant Rentschler, who did as much as any man to make that prediction come true, was on the move again...
...know what I'd do without an hourly solitary cigarette in an exam," claims Mary Brant, Radcliffe '51, who opposes any merger. Harvard also has objections: "Girls are all right in classes, but in exams you have to concentrate," muttered an Eliot House sophomore recently...
...newspaperman Brant has plunged into source materials that professional historians have so far made little use of. His richest pickings were longhand copies of French diplomatic correspondence in the Library of Congress. To read them, Brant had to brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history...