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With verve, nerve and skill, British aviation last week backed its reputation for daring. On a little-used airstrip at Chalgrove Oxfordshire, Test Pilot John Stuart Fin ) Fifield volunteered to make the first live test of Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. s low-altitude ejection seat (TIME March 21 ). Tossing a pilot out of an airplane at high altitude is comparatively simple. There is plenty of time for the parachute to open. Doing it at low altitude, especially at ground level, is much more risky. The Martin-Baker system has controls that match its performance automatically to the altitude...
...Trilby, George du Maurier's period novel of 1894, Director Noel Langley decided to play the story straight. As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris...
...Dinner Party, by Gretchen Fin-letter. An entertaining martini of a novel with a lemon-twist of real wit about the more fashionable reaches of Commuter-land (TIME, June...
...five bucks. For what, Marty asks. The guy says, for taking a "dog" home: "I got stuck on a blind date." Marty is horrified. "You just can't walk off on a girl like that!" he gasps. The guy shrugs and pedals off and somebody else gets the fin, but the girl (Betsy Blair) won't have any part of this deal. She goes out on the fire escape and cries. Marty goes out after her and, knowing exactly how she must feel, tries nobly to take the curse off what has happened...
Coach Bruce Munro expects to use Dick Wooiston and Charies Wolle as forwards, Noel Tyl at center, and Tom Bernheim and Bob Montgomery at the guard positions. Wolle, second high scorer for the season behind Woolsten, and Tony Massari have recently recovered from fin, and should strengthen the team in its quest for its seventh victory...