Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first research laboratory. Almost unheard of in 1900 were science laboratories as adjuncts and stimulants of manufacture. Charles Proteus Steinmetz and a G. E. patent lawyer persuaded Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr.-then technical director, later president-to found one. To start it Rice picked Willis Rodney Whitney, a brilliant and forceful young chemistry teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...knew horseflesh were put in charge of tanks, and all the brilliant experimenters with mechanization were put out of the way-one was retired, another sent to command a second-class district in India, where there were no mechanized troops, another given an anti-aircraft division...
...obvious that tank production was far behind necessities-and the Army looked around for a new Master General of Ordnance. "An obvious choice," says Liddell Hart, was Giffard Le Quesne Martel. This brilliant young man helped develop tanks in 1916. In November of that year he wrote a paper suggesting an entire Army of fighting vehicles. Later, he built the first one-man tank in his own garage. Known by his staff as Q, by his friends as "Slosher," he was, as all insiders knew, the man to produce tanks. But Martel was only a colonel, and when...
...side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
...spring he made his U. S. debut in Washington, D. C., with a conservative production of Shaw's Saint Joan, feebly played by Cinemactress Luise Rainer. Currently Piscator is director of the 400-seat Studio Theatre of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, many of whose brilliant staff are political refugees. There last week he gave King Lear, first of a subscription series of plays...