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Schoolboy's Dart. Airplanes with conventional wings have been known to run into trouble at high speeds. Near the sonic barrier, the turbulent air shoved aside by wings and fuselage offers so much resistance that to go still faster requires extravagant power. Given that power, some straight-winged planes do push through into supersonic flight, e.g., Bell's rocket-powered X-1 (TIME, April 18, 1949). But there are tense moments while they pass through disturbed...
RAFFI at 12 Brattle Street is living up to its reputation for being the center of the different, the rare, and the beautiful. Its latest object dart is this pewter patches, imported from Holland. Its starkly, sweeping lines, lend an atmosphere of dignity to any surrounding. The pitchers come in sizes from one point to two quarts, and are priced, accordingly, from...
WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL is fond of his collection of goldfish. When he approaches their pools in the lovely grounds of his country house at Chartwell Manor in Kent, the goldfish dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...
...Rube! In Palisades Amusement Park, N J., after he had paid off ten kewpie dolls, four Teddy bears and a set of china to a wondrously successful dart thrower, Concessionaire Joe Weissman investigated, found the marksman's confederate behind the backdrop with a long hatpin...
...should be understood, however," he wrote, "that certain of the testimony given by some of the subsequent witnesses did not coincide with my own recollection and record of the events, and with many of their opinions and judgments I am in direct disagreement." MacArthur also had a last dart for the man who fired him: "Insofar as the investigation dealt with my relief from the Far East command, I feel that the full facts have not been elucidated due to orders of the President silencing the pertinent witnesses...