Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That over, the Budapest retired, and the Paganini played Milhaud's more melodic Quartet No. 15. Then, while chamber-music lovers waited uneasily, the Budapest returned, sat down alongside the Paganini, and the eight players played the two quartets simultaneously. The result: critics found it a superb feat of musicianship, but most listeners looked as if they were hearing an important speech in a foreign language...
...Highlands, N.J., 42-year-old Gertrude Ederle, after 23 years still holder of the women's speed record for swimming the English Channel, wished the best of luck to 17-year-old Shirley May France, training for the same feat. In England, Shirley May primly assured the world that there would be a bathing suit under her coat of grease...
...several fine performances-notably those by Jennifer Jones, Heflin and Jourdan. Miss Jones, in her best picture to date, manipulates Emma's moods and caprices with sensitive dexterity. Hardly ever out of sight of the camera, she gives a performance that is hardly ever out of focus, a feat that even the finicky Flaubert could admire...
Died. Joe Crosson, 45, veteran bush pilot, "Troubleshooter of the Arctic"; of a heart attack; in Seattle. Flying by the seat of his pants over the uncharted Northland, Crosson became famed for his mercy trips (in a 1931 diphtheria epidemic he took antitoxin to Point Barrow, repeated the feat five years later during a scarlet fever epidemic in Fairbanks...
...added that the AEC probably with held this information from him because if didn't want to get him spent and involved in a hearing. It simply feat him to a laboratory not engaged in secret work...