Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...models will have to be precise to the last detail. Every test that is used to train spotters, gunners, etc. requires exactly scaled models. In training gunners, for example, it is necessary to teach them to recognize whether a ship is going at maximum or at cruising speed, and the only method they have of estimating range is the size of the plane in their ring sights. Since the models are built on the precise scale of 1 to 72 (one inch represents six feet of the actual plane), the model looks to the gunner at 35 feet exactly...
...loyalty to Joseph Stalin is unquestioned by Joseph Stalin, who ought to know. Stalin finds him useful in the way Hitler finds Artillery General Alfred Jodl useful-to be always at the elbow to answer questions, to advise, to refuse, to confirm. Boris Shaposhnikov's memory for detail is astonishing; he seems to know Clausewitz's Of War by heart...
...three meaty principal roles are played with astonishing skill of characterization for a production of this kind. Constructed at a cost of $9, the set combines accurate detail with suggestion in the right proportions in presenting on a small stage the cross section of three rooms, a hall, and a staircase, which is required. And Robert de Lany's direction has heightened the dramatic effect of every tense moment. "The Old Ladies," next to be presented Wednesday, offers one of the most completely satisfying entertainments in Boston this year...
...Arthur, are still in the Philippines, still safe, Cordell Hull disclosed. Meantime in Washington the General's first wife, Louise Atwill, fiftyish, now the wife of ex-Matinee Idol Lionel Atwill, said she has lately been getting "hundreds of letters from hysterical people who demand to know in detail why I divorced MacArthur." Also received: newspaper queries on the color of the General's eyes and hair; a fat offer from a syndicate for his early love letters...
...pronunciation of German (he remembered the latter); she edited The Dial, the house organ of Transcendentalism; she was outtalked at last by fuliginous Thomas Carlyle; she embodied at its most intense the Transatlantic cultural hunger of the Eastern Seaboard. This is a full-length portrait of her, recording every detail from the carbuncle ring she wore as her symbol of masculinity to almost every severe headache she had. It makes a period and its chief personages-notably Alcott and Emerson-vivid and understandable...