Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvador Dali, supersalesman of limp-watch surrealism, honored Madrid with a visit and modern art with an offer of leadership: "My name is Salvador because I am destined to save modern painting from laziness and chaos . . . The world is going through the middle ages, but a renaissance will follow." He would soon be ready to lead that renaissance: "The world's greatest painters were Velasquez and Raphael -every day I feel I am getting closer to them." There was no challenger. Picasso? "Picasso's works are pseudo-decorative and they all look like rugs...
Quarter Salesman. When he went down to his Detroit haberdashery one day when it was closed, Louis Dean Kilgore had trouble shaking off the window shoppers who wanted to follow him in. Disturbed over the business he was obviously losing in off-hours, "Red" Kilgore last week set up a coin-operated salesman in his front window. By inserting a quarter in it, an off-hour window shopper can verbally order any item on display, have his name, address and phone number recorded on a tape inside. Next morning, store clerks transcribe the tape, recheck with customers by phone...
...Course. The pilot of a fully equipped airliner will not even have to take such fixes. Another device, the course-line computer, will do the worrying for him. He merely selects (by setting a dial) the course he wants to follow within the territory of a certain omnirange. The gadgets do the rest, measuring continuously both distance and direction and digesting the information electronically. All the pilot has to do is watch the magic needle. As long as it is vertical, he is on his preset course. He can fly where he chooses, selecting the most direct route and avoiding...
...season, for the first time since it was formed by Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood, the partners could not dig up a play among them; Broadway wondered loudly whether the old hands had lost their grip. Now the Playwrights plan to follow Anne with four more in the current season...
Some very good poetry was written in 1948, most of it by the older and established writers. No bright young poet blazed a sensational new trail-not even as narrow and hard to follow as the one Robert Lowell blazed...