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Avoid sitting in the side sections of the Kenmore Theatre: at the Wednesday night showing of "Stone Flower" a cloud of local sadists, timing it cunningly, swarmed is a few moments after the picture began, and pounded up and down the aisles, obscuring the English titles with great effectiveness. Anyone who makes the trip to the Kenmore and is careful to get seated in the middle section, will find himself absorbed in an enchanting and colorful Russian fairy tale...
...54th birthday, after a long wartime evacuation, Eros, the winged, aluminum god of love, returned to his Piccadilly pedestal. Cheers greeted him as he drove up in a lorry. A drunk tossed a carnation with the words "From one Eros to another," and ducked away from alert bobbies. Flower-Girl Polly was ready with 15 fresh roses to garland her hero. An official stopped her. "A bit frivolous," he said. "Got to draw the line somewhere, y'know, but we'll hang 'em on the scaffolding." There was some dull speechmaking. But what the crowd wanted most...
April-showers, and May-flower time brought a fresh harvest of Crimson victories. On the cinders, coach Mikkola's lads began scourging the Ivy League with prewar vitality. While his assistant Ed Flanagan worked with the weightmen, Mikkola waved the magic wand over javelin throwers and polevaulters. The Crimson disposed of Yale, swept the Nonagonals, and then went on to roll up 24 points in the 44-college IC4A championships at Philadelphia for a third-place tie with Penn State. Harvard track had rebounded from its wartime pygmy status with a vengeance...
...Vienna, the tram conductors are cheerful. They are among the few people who know where they are going these days, and they proudly wear the Social-Democratic party flower on their caps-red tin carnations. The trolleys, which are just as red, again rattle through the streets with people hanging like bunches of grapes from the jammed cars. Lilacs and hyacinths are in bloom, white & rose candles stand high and firm in the chestnut trees. You don't have to remember the bodies still buried under the ruins to realize that all the flowers amid Vienna's dead...
Only a small part of a plane's noise comes from the engine exhaust. Up to 95% comes from the propeller, whose fast-moving tips stir up racketing sound waves. To eliminate the waves, NACA designed a five-bladed prop, which looks like a five-petaled flower. It gives plenty of push when driven (through reduction gears) at a comparatively slow 1,000 r.p.m. The broad, leisurely blades do their work in near silence...