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Last week an exhibition of Klee's calculated naivetés opened in London's Tate Gallery. In Manhattan, a new portfolio appeared (The Prints of Paul Klee; Curt Valentin, $15). Its 40 etchings and lithographs proved 40 times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...
...Government restrictions" were Britain's curt reply to Pan American's Juan Terry Trippe for cutting his New York-London fare from $572 to $275. The restrictions were ordered by Britain's Civil Air Ministry, headed by thin-faced Lord Winster, who recently drafted the bill to nationalize British Airlines. With those new rates, said Lord Winster's Civil Air Ministry, Pan Am could fly to London only twice a week. If Pan Am raised its fares to at least $375, it could make seven flights a week...
...miles of darkest Africa. Result: operating efficiency shot up over 300%- and the accident rate went down. Then he was handed a bigger job : running the lifeline to China over the Hump. There, as in Africa, the big reason for not flying was "weather." So Hardin drafted a curt order: "Effective immediately, there will be no more weather over the Hump...
Imposing as the B-29 forces under Curt LeMay had become, it was only a part of the power to be turned against Japan in a vast offensive that even more conservative airmen hoped would knock the enemy out of the war before...
Spaatz already had his team - Doolittle and Twining - who had done the job for him in the European theater. He also had in Curt LeMay a brilliant tactical commander; LeMay's know-how in Pacific battle and B-29 operations had to be spread through the enlarged strategic air forces. So while LeMay's officers grumbled a bit at a good man and a crack leader being taken from tactical command, their black-browed boss was moved...