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...test of an experimental airplane is a blood-chilling drama. It has its hero, the test pilot, to dominate its climax like the matador of a bullfight. It has a troop of villains: the unseen devils of the air that claw at the untried plane, shake it, spin it, hammer it, try to tear it to ribbons. Some tests are extra tense. The maiden flight of the X-3 a few months ago was one of the touchiest in aviation history. The pilot: Bill Bridgeman, a husky, clear-eyed airman who had already flown faster (1,238 m.p.h.) and higher...
...only weak spot in the Crimson's lineup currently appears to be in the javelin throw, where Coach Bill McCarthy has not been able to come up with a winning man. The rest of the field events have looked stronger recently with Bob Curran looking especially good in the hammer...
Other winners for the Crimson were: hammer throw, Pete Curran, 157 feet, 101/2 inches; shot put, Gil Murray, 47 feet, 4 inches; two-mile run, Hal Gerry, 10:05.5; 880 yard run, Phil Meyers, 2:01.4; and the high jump, Don Whitehead, five feet, 10 inches...
...party's will was Stalin's, and in the eleven turbulent years that he served as Premier (1930-41), Molotov was Stalin's hammer. He forced through the first two Five-Year Plans. Not long after Molotov's pretty, pigtailed daughter Svetlana had learned to talk, she innocently laid bare the secret of her father's success. "Mother works," she pouted. "Father doesn't work. He just walks in the Kremlin with Stalin...
Perfume & Frog Fat. Stalin rewarded the Hammer by showering his family with favors. Madame Paulina Molotov (her revolutionary name is Zhemchuzhina, meaning a pearl) is an olive-skinned Jewess, who looks a little like the Duchess of Windsor. She was born in the Ukraine, "the poorest of the poor," but as the Premier's wife,* was soon gaily commuting from a stylish glass-and-steel dacha on the Moscow River. When Stalin issued his famous Diktat-Let us be gay, Comrades-the Pearl was appointed boss of the Soviet Perfume and Cosmetics Trust. "My husband works on their souls...