Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...C. BOWYER Director The Society of British Aircraft...
World War II: Discharged from air force; after fall of France, fled to Spain, en route to North Africa to join Free French, was imprisoned for six months. Ill in Morocco, he was nursed by black-haired Yvette Céva, Algiers-born daughter of a French colon, married her in 1943 (they now have four children). They moved to England, where Pierre trained with the R.A.F...
...criticism of art forms. Professor Cunningham believes, for instance, that landscape paintings exhibit the same high redundancy that television pictures do. Williams College Art Professor S. Lane Faison Jr. cautioned, however, that the very best art exhibited the least redundancy, e.g., the paintings of French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, who evolved a style that was a. kind of shorthand. In Cézanne's paintings, said Faison, "whole areas of information" were eliminated: "tables, fruit . . . where the light came from, what time of day it is." Redundancy in painting, added Faison, is the very thing that C...
Whether G.M. will go into the passenger-car business depends on how the train tests out on the New York Central, Pennsylvania and a long list of other railroads waiting to try it out on regular passenger runs. But G.M.'s Vice President (for Electro-Motive Division) Nelson C. Dezendorf is confident that G.M. can sell its newest product. Says he: "If we can build a railroad car to sell at half the price of present cars, and be operated at half the price, and be maintained at less than half the price, that's good...
...recover $6,640,000 for 57,000 creditors, policyholders and stockholders, the state accused the company of buying political influence in Kentucky. When Kentucky Insurance Commissioner S. H. Goebel indicated two years ago that he would investigate General American's operations in his state, General American Director Connie C. Schuchard went to Kentucky and, charged the suit, "hired John A. Keck, a district judge of the state . . . and Wade Hall, an insurance man, to exert their political influence in order to prevent Commissioner Goebel from making said examination . . . For their fraudulent acts . . . Keck was to be paid...