Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Carolina's Tar Heel on Tatum's imminent arrival: "Now that we have this parasitic monster of open professionalism in our midst, let's not hold on to any delusions about it. Let's not think that it will fail to dye the whole fabric of athletics at the university. Let's not think either that it will fail to take its toll on the academic health of the school. Let's not believe that Jim Tatum . . . will play the game any more for the old college try here than...
Flying Mattress. Britain's M. L. Aviation Co. showed off the first model of a new inflatable-wing, two-passenger aircraft which may be the sky-auto of the future. Named the "Flying Mattress," the new plane features a 40-ft. span delta wing, made of light fabric and easily inflated by compressed air machines or by a regular tire pump. When deflated, the wing is small enough to fit in a car's trunk compartment. Inflated, the wing sits on posts above a 10-ft. wooden fuselage, is held in place by struts. A pusher-propeller, powered...
Others of the splendid handful were a large still life by Joan Miro (donated by Armand G. Erpf), far harsher than the later, playful abstractions that made his fame, and a cheesecloth-and-plaster picture by Paul Klee (donated by Stanley Resor) entitled The Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber. Klee's painted maze symbolized the singer by her initials alone, and her voice by the liltingly arranged vowels...
...Reward of Productivity. Obviously, much was learned in the Vicos experiment, and the trifling size of the bill to its U.S. participants seemed to point still another lesson. On insistence of the Peruvians, who balked at any drastic ripping of the social fabric of the highlands, Holmberg did not relieve the Indians of their obligation to work three days a week for the patron. Instead, he increased their productivity so much that returns from Vicos' cash crops rose from $2,000 a year to $10,000. The profit nicely covered the needed fertilizer, seeds, buildings and farmers' loans...
Desmond (Fantasy). Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, who is usually heard with Dave Brubeck (TIME, Nov. 8), teams up with two other combos on this plaintive and appealing disk. On one side, he infuses his pure, sensitive tones into a handsome vocal fabric (by the Bill Bates Singers). On the other is a quintet, including amiable Trumpeter Dick Collins and Tenor Saxophonist Dave Van Kriedt, who composed such originals as a prelude (Baroque) and fugue (But Happy...