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...tractor and Billy from relays of tank trucks. They laid an asbestos blanket over Billy who crouched down on the seat, told his rescuers nonchalantly: "Take it easy." Then a water truck ran dry, and firemen watched helplessly as flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...
Because of such players as George Mikan, pro basketball is gradually taking on a big-league glow. The Basketball Association of America is a twelve-city circuit, playing to enthusiastic crowds from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to St. Louis' Arena. Its stars get paid as much as $17,500 for a 20-week season. Like Mikan, most of the big-name basketball pros come out of topflight collegiate ranks...
When buxom, 35-year-old Soprano Welitsch bounced into rehearsal, singers and musicians alike picked up more glow. Actress as well as singer, she seemed to know how Strauss's libidinous, necrophilic Salome (based on Oscar Wilde's play) should be portrayed. Says Welitsch with rapid gestures to head, heart and torso: "To sing Salome, you have to have something-here and here and here...
...scheme that cast a fine pink glow over the grim, grey postwar world. Foreign women who were genuinely in love with U.S. soldiers were assured a wonderful wedding gift, foreign adventuresses were so inspired that whole battalions of G.I.s came to rank themselves with Casanova and Don Juan. In all by December an estimated 112,000 brides, husbands and children had come from overseas to share the good life in Boston, Paducah, and Walla Walla, Wash...
...elder statesman of U.S. industry last week took a look into 1949-and blinked his eyes at the rosy glow. The reason for the glow, thought General Motors' Afired P. Sloan Jr., was the continued high rate of spending for plant expansion and new construction, which now accounts for about 6% of the gross national product. Said he: "As long as that [expansion] continues ... I am sure that the impact on consumer goods and durable goods will give us a high level of national income...