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...growing arsenal of supersonic warplanes, the U.S. last week added still another jet fighter,-this one for the Navy. At Calverton, L.I., Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. lifted the security lid for a quick view of its F9F9 "Tiger." The plane looks as ferocious as its name. Designed for carrier operations, it has a short, solid snout, an undulating, "coke bottle" fuselage, and drooping, knife-thin wings. For armament, it will carry air-to-air rockets, possibly Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s new Sparrow missile, now in mass production. Top speed: top secret, but the plane weighs less than...
WHERE ANGELS DARED TO TREAD -V. F. Calverton-Bobbs-Merrill ($3). Essays on 20-odd (of some 200) North American tries at Utopia which the late V. F. Calverton regarded as most significant. His report is uneven, and his data sketchy but fascinating. His evidence shows that: 1) Many Utopias succeeded until they knuckled their ideals under. 2) The most successful were religious, not scientific, communisms. 3) The destiny of most was determined by the hypnotic influence of an inspired-or maniacal-leader, and changed with his death. 4) Not one dared to meet sexual problems pointblank; even bold Oneida...
Political and economic conditions in Germany, France and Spain and their affect on the people living in those countries will be discussed Sunday evening, at Ford Hall Forum by V. F. Calverton, sociologist, and editor of the Modern Monthly...
Recently returned to America after many months of study in Europe, Mr. Calverton claims that economic factors are responsible for the mind being what...
...concept of good will. There is a salve, in story form, on the installment buying system by William Trufant Foster; and a very, very conventional restatement of the silver argument, this time called "Honest Inflation," by one Edward Tuck. The most valuable contribution to Scribners comes from V. F. Calverton. Mr. Calverton is concerned with a sane revaluation of Thomas Paine, and he shows that among the many ironies of Paine's life, the most bitter was his persecution for godlessness on the basis of "The Age of Reason," which is obviously the work of a very religious...