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...Rewards. Last week Art Tilt was a happy man-his company was going great guns, an Army-Navy E flag floated over his neat, compact factory, his employes had just surprised their tough-guy boss with a gold trophy and a diamond-studded pin to show their "friendship and esteem [in] recognition of 38 years of continuous leadership unmarred by labor strife or serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed...
...main objective of the compulsory athletic program is physical conditioning and the benefits of marching in gaining this effect are only fractional. And with student time becoming more and more of a problem, compact, half-hour exercise periods seem to be the ideal solution...
Global Pair. Occasionally the compact list of morning callers includes the spare, incisive man who, beyond all others in the Army except Douglas MacArthur, has caught the public eye: Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Chief of the Services of Supply. Among the men around the Chief of Staff, General Somervell bears a distinctive brand. Brilliant, dashing, he depends strongly upon picked subordinates of whom he requires the same luminous qualities. Quiet, monotonal George Marshall requires great competence, but he does not demand brilliance; he knows how to use the human tools at hand, considering it part of his duty...
About the size of a suitcase, weighing 128 lb., the compact device is already in use for testing all types of planes from single-seater fighters to B-19s. A recorder costs $2,000 (Glenn Martin paid for one in a week with money saved in life-insurance premiums for the three observers usually carried on heavy bomber test flights). But the supply of recorders is still limited...
...stories are all worth reading. Top honors go equally to Curtis Thomas's "Ascent" and Doug Woolf's "The Knifeman." Both are compact, sensitively chiselled pieces of work, relaying on restraint and carefully prepared surprise for their effects. Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...