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Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, said last night that he had "heard" of Mantegazza. He speculated that the book would find its way into the Peabody Museum's collection of such literature, familiarly known as the "Inferno...
...agreed at last to stop while medical corpsmen bandaged his wound, but as soon as their backs were turned, off he hobbled on another series of charges. "At the critical moment," says the citation, "amidst an inferno of enemy machine-gun and mortar fire . . . Speakman led a final charge to clear the crest of the hill and hold it whilst the remainder of his company withdrew." When his grenades ran out, he threw stones...
...climax, in wet woods at night, is a scene for a modern Inferno. After it, the timid anticlimax, in which Natalie recovers her sanity, is close to banal. But 30-year-old Author Jackson, who has already made a name for herself with such psychological chillers as The Lottery and other short stories (TIME, May 23, 1949), proves that she can maintain the same eerie pressure at novel length...
Skiing enthusiasts find plenty to keep them occupied. The trail, starting with the Headwall below the summit of Mt. Washington and ending with the S-turns of the Sherburne Trail, has been described as the toughest skiing in the East. The Inferno Race is run here each spring...
...power race. To mark Pratt & Whitney's 25th anniver sary, he dedicated a new $12 million gas turbine testing laboratory on the banks of the Connecticut River. Oldtimers who examined the concrete-lined testing chambers, in which jet engines will roar full blast in a gas-swirled inferno, were reminded of a classic Pratt & Whitney story. A wartime visitor to the plant, watching blue flames flickering from an engine's exhaust, remarked brightly: "Actually, you people simply are trying to contain and control fire, aren't you?" Replied a Pratt & Whitney veteran: "Yes, and that...