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...Army does not admit officially that it plans to shoot rockets at the moon. Congress might think it frivolous, though the moon is the handiest gull's-eye for extra-atmospheric target practice. In spite of the Army's reticence, Dr. J. A. Hutcheson, associate director of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, has heard unofficially that the Army's first moon rocket may be fired in 18 months. This seemed optimistic, considering the difficulties. But last week Dr. Hutcheson was excitedly designing a radio station to be rocketed to the moon, where it would broadcast back to earth...
Last week, at San Francisco's M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, his home town got a look at 64 deftly slapdash Dong watercolors. One standout was a gay gull's-eye view of San Francisco's war-crowded harbor (see cut). To get a proper perch to paint it from, Dong pitched a pup tent dizzily atop the Bay Bridge. It was a long way up from the narrow obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown, where he began...
...raft scenes are not so good. Mechanically, there are excellent moments: the initial crash, the soft, strangling sound of the plane as it founders, the angelic strangeness and beauty of the rescuing plane-a machine apotheosized. Other bits are finely conceived: the aching silence as a gull circles the starved men, its ghastly squeal when it is caught. And there are earnest, dignified performances, notably those of MacMurray, Richard Conte and Lloyd Nolan. Yet it is never quite possible to believe that the oceanic anguish is more than a stone's throw from all the food and drink Hollywood...
...potato reserves. When the food cuts were announced, Britons were promised more corned meats with a controlled price of 36?. The first muscat grapes appeared last week at about $16 a lb.; melons are still $10 each, peaches and nectarines $4 each. The egg diet is being supplemented by gull eggs at 25? each, turkey eggs at 60? each...
...writer of much threat and some promise, "Professor Sea Gull"--Village barkeeps also call him "The Mongoose"--subsists on doles from his more affluent friends in the literary world. Describing his present economic status, he remarks, "I have slept with Lady Poverty, but I'm conventional and don't consider that an introduction...