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...artist alive-lean, likable Norman Rockwell, painter of the nationally distributed Four Freedoms posters. After the Rosie episode, he got a good deal of personal mail at his home in Arlington, Vt. One of the letters felt that Michelangelo must be about as restful in his grave as a drill in a cavity. The others were pleased. Mr. Rockwell himself, quite untroubled, told questioners that the modeling was of course deliberate, that he thought it would be "fun." He added, "At first I was going to make it entirely like Michelangelo, but his color was not good for a magazine...
...philosopher, teaching navigation: "I doubt that my postwar teaching will be improved. [Flight teaching] is drill, not education...
WAFS get military drill (at which they excel men), learn meteorology, navigation and other pilots' lore, wear coveralls while flying and, in general, are "processed" like men. But there are some variations. Example: Avenger's pin-neat barracks have walls of Nile green and white. The cream-colored lockers, where cosmetics and pink underthings are discreetly kept, are locked with hasps tastefully pegged with pink golf tees...
...hear that call right now, ringing out at this very moment at Columbia and Northwestern, we'll bet. And you can see them running blinker drill, and ordnance drill while we muster for statistics lab and industrial management. They're looking forward to commissioning day at Columbia and to mid-semester exams at Northwestern (and here we sing "Four More Months to Go" (grunt, grunt)...and for most of us that's only forgetting the fact that we should be singing "Twelve More Months...
Vladimir Horowitz owes his enormous following to the most amazingly fleet, powerful and accurate fingers in the pianistic world. He can trill with the relentless evenness of a mechanical drill. He can rip off a scale of octaves with a glittering finish that few of his contemporaries can even approach. His performances invariably crackle with electric virtuosity...