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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down in Maine. Sickly as a boy, Wyeth kept close to the studio of his father, famed Illustrator N. C. Wyeth. ("Ever since I was twelve, nothing has meant anything to me except painting.") But while his father brought knights, pirates and Scottish chiefs to life, illustrating books like Treasure Island and the Boys' King Arthur, young Andrew became more & more fascinated with illustrating the little universe around him-at Chadds Ford, Pa., where he was born, and down east in Maine, where the family spent its summers. He lives now with his wife and two sons within...
...unmanned "sounding balloon" has risen to 140,000 feet (26½-miles), breaking the altitude record for any man-made object except rockets. So the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced last week. The balloon, released over Belmar, N.J. carried 2½ pounds of instruments which radioed data on atmospheric pressure, temperature, etc. The maximum altitude was deduced from the pressure signals; the balloon disappeared behind clouds at about 40,000 feet, was not seen again...
Poor Sales. In Detroit, almost any car except Chevrolet, Plymouth and Ford could be bought right off showroom floors without trade-ins. DeSotos and Chryslers could be had with only a few dollars worth of extras (v. a postwar average of about $280 worth for all cars) while Packards could be bought "bare" (without accessories), a sign that the market was down. And across the U.S. used-car dealers were suffering their worst slump since...
Last week, Die Neue Zeitung got its fourth editor: greying Kendall Foss, 44, ex-TIME writer, Nieman Fellow and longtime foreign correspondent. Except for Editor Foss and a handful of other key men, the Zeitung is written by Germans in German...
...been proven by science that swimming consumes more energy than any other sport, and last year it was proven under competition that Hal Ulen's swimmers can win more meets than most teams in the nation. Last year, his moist horde overpowered all of their nine opponents except Yale. This year they're out to make it a clean sweep...