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...Viewers-with-alarm feared that many surplus war products might glut the post-war market, now realize they may be as hard to sell as a shot-up dive bomber...
...long ago had won their fight to fly from escort carriers (TIME, Oct. 23), but this was different; this was the big time. They went as escort for Avenger torpedo bombers. Grumman Hellcats with Navy pilots made up the rest of this carrier's complement. It had no dive-bombers-McCain and Thach never had believed in dive-bombers...
...Stinson's only passenger, a Marine corporal, had never flown a plane. With the dual controls, he managed to pull the light plane out of its dive. After he had sweated out 30 minutes of level flight, the pilot came to and landed on another island, 15 miles away...
...Town (book and lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less...
Working as smoothly as their smooth, new planes, the Forty-niners played an important part in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. They flew over the Owen Stanley mountains, strafed and dive-bombed on missions of their own, escorted heavy bombers, gave valuable support to ground troops all up the New Guinea coast...