Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E Flat (London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Sir Thomas, famed for his way with Mozart, made this recording just before he left England last year. One of the three greatest Mozart symphonies, it has been in the grooves before but never so perfectly...
...finger was pointed not so much at the automakers as at the indecision of the Government's handling of defense to date. It took the Army, the Navy and OPACS to stir OPM to action on autos. Although Detroit has complained bitterly about the recent rumors of a flat 50% cut in '42 production, no motormaker protested at last week's meeting. Reason: there was hope that chaos, at least, might be over. Detroit was to have an advisory say in how its own transition from automaking to munitions-making could best be done...
...Blue Sky. Terrain and season defined the campaign. The easiest area for attack was the central plain just above and below the vast Pripet Marshes. The two main German drives developed there - one headed for Minsk and Moscow, the other for Kiev and the Ukraine (see map) - over land flat as a billiard table, through fields still too green to be burned, under a sky clear enough for half-blind pilots. The weather would stay fine for three months, within which the Germans intended to attain their objectives...
...responsible consideration of the matter." There was every indication in Tokyo that the Government was giving responsible consideration to many matters arising out of Germany's attack on Russia, which, in spite of official denials, caught Japan as flat-footed as everybody else. Venturesome Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who promoted and signed both the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy and the Neutrality Pact with Russia, hastened to explain things to Emperor Hirohito...
...public sensation of flat, sun-washed Nairobi, capital of Britain's Kenya Colony, is the drawn-out trial of one of its first citizens for the murder of another. This week, in a hot, crowded courtroom, Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton was awaiting the verdict of a jury of his peers. For a full month he had seen the Crown Counsel, witness by witness, put together a damning picture of the murder of his friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (TIME, March...