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Fosburgh is a late starter: he is having his first one-man show at 41. After musing through galleries and lecturing for four years at Manhattan's Frick Museum on everything from Chinese ceramics to Boucher, he finally decided to turn painter. Wartime service as an Army glider pilot held him up for five years. Then he spent another year experimenting with blobs and squiggles: "I didn't know what I was doing, and finally I decided I wasn't going to find out, so I chucked the whole lot into the fireplace...
Author Thomas tells a good story, especially when he is describing with veteran skill the wild night in March 1944 when the glider-borne attackers landed behind the Jap lines. The pity is that, after giving the Americans their due, he had relatively little room left to tell the story of the British and Empire troops - whose bitter work began when the gliders rolled to a stop...
...South African gliding meet began on the broad plateau at Baragwanath. All morning thick cumulus clouds built up in the hot, dry air over the Rand. At noon, Swiss Engineer René Comte folded his wiry frame into the cramped, rubber-cushioned cockpit of his sleek Moswey (Buzzard) IV glider, fitted the bubble canopy in place and took off, towed by a sturdy little Tiger-Moth. With good luck he hoped to fly to Bloemfontein, 200 miles away...
...faster-like a man moving upstairs while strolling slowly downward on a racing escalator. At 11,000 ft. the rain turned to hail that tore noisily at the wings. The airspeed indicator froze, and the rate-of-climb indicator stuck at 5 ft. per second. The needle of the glider's sealed barograph reached its limit at 27,000 ft. But the plane, bucking and pitching in the turbulent winds, kept on climbing...
...work will center at Bishop, Calif., where the wind from the Pacific, hitting the high Sierras, sets up waves that can lift an insulated, pressurized glider up to 42,000 ft. Flying gliders into these windy elevators has become a popular hair-raising sport, and the flights of the Southern California Soaring Association are an ideal means of investigating the waves. Working with the glider pilots, Dr. Kuettner will bring back information from which Drs. Queney and Holmboe hope to work out a way of predicting the wind's behavior...