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...Flame & Fight. There had been plenty of reports to keep Project Saucer busy. In January 1948, an object like "an ice cream cone topped with red" was sighted by several observers over Godman Air Force Base, Ft. Knox, Ky. Three fighter planes flew off in pursuit. Captain Thomas F. Mantell chased the object to 20,000 ft., later crashed, probably from lack of oxygen, and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...July, two Eastern Airlines pilots flying over Alabama met a "wingless aircraft, 100 ft. long, cigar-shaped and about twice the diameter of a B-29." Dazzling blue light glared from its windows, and long orange flame streamed out behind. It shot past the airliner at a speed one-third faster than common jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...doing was just the thing for Actress-Dancer. Nora Kaye: in his emotion-packed ballets she could combine the best she had learned from her actor-father with the best of ballet. With the premiere of Tudor's Pillar of Fire in 1942, Nora came to full flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Actress on Tiptoe | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...more. He dresses up his crime stories with phony montages, demands a new angle for the lead story in each of his seven editions. He has a talent for tagging big crimes with a headline catchphrase; two of his trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid on the other." His solid matter includes such stories as Arizona's side of the current water squabble with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for the Boss | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Glare in the Sky | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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