Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most remarkable feature of Mr. Rice's 20-year career as an idea man to the Navy is that the Navy has never adopted any of his ideas. Last week, after hearing his proposal, the Committee dropped the whole provision, sent the rest of the bill to the Senate recommending passage...
...never have to perform or withstand in normal use. This testing sometimes involves diving a ship at such terrific speed that leveling off causes it to break apart in midair. The pilot is then expected to bail out with his recorded observations. If a test pilot ends his career alive, he is considered lucky. Test Pilot'?, flying shots are among the best ever staged by cinema. But the picture is less concerned with the mechanics of test flying than it is with how test pilots and those about them live...
...concerning the Italian dictator's early life and writings, which the Harvard tutor obtained and smuggled out of Italy in 1925-26 and 1932-33. The biography, he said, is an attempt to prevent the building of a new "Napoleonic Legend" by reconstructing a picture of Mussolini's early career while the facts are still obtainable and the picture not permanently distorted...
...Fairbanks, who owns a freighter and a South Sea island and who "does what he does when he wants to do it," tries to convince Miss Dunne, highest star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...
...begin with, he holds the Harvard and pool records in the 50, 100, and 220, having set times that are dangerously near world records. By the end of this year's regular season he had been beaten but four times in his swimming career, not counting the Olympics. These were the finals of the N. C. A. A. 50 in 1936, the finals of the N. A. A. U. 100 in 1937, the 440 in the 1937 Yale meet, and the match race of 150 yards with Bill Kendall, and in all of these races he came in second...