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Spruce from a new overhaul, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri-the only active battleship in the U.S. Navy-steamed out of Norfolk last week headed for Caribbean maneuvers. For lean, strong-jawed Captain W. D. Brown, it was the first trip since he took command last December. Just past Old Point Comfort, the Mighty Mo swung to the north of the familiar channel to run a new acoustic range. The Mighty Mo never swung back. With the sickening sensation that only a sailor can know, Captain Brown felt his ship touch bottom. Slowly, majestically, the 57,600 tons of the Mighty...
...critics have called lean-faced, Boston-born Jack Levine, 35, one of the half-dozen liveliest young painters in the U.S. Some of Levine's own words for himself are "romantic humanitarian," "editorial" artist, "social" artist. In a crowded Back Bay gallery last week, gallerygoers at Levine's first big show got a chance to see for themselves what all the words meant...
Slow Down. Gibson nodded sympathetically and put Herb on cross-country to build up endurance. Then he tried him on the board track at Seton Hall. Lesson No. i was how to go into turns. McKenley was told to lean into them, dropping the left shoulder and bringing the right arm up and away from the body...
Many of his business admirers apparently think so too. Since the announcement last fall of the Gravity Research Foundation, letters have flooded in. Many came from cranks-e.g., one man described a "whirlpool of force" in Oregon where trees and people all lean toward the magnetic north. But inquiries came from impressed businessmen too. A leading shoe manufacturer offered Babson $100,000 for "something that can be put into the sole of a shoe to insulate against gravity." Floor-covering manufacturers showed a lively interest in the possibility of "flying" carpets...
...does he describe his present work? "I don't lean toward any 'ism," Price says. "To me my work is very realistic. [The important thing is to] get away from that tightening-up feeling. You've got to loosen up. You've got to feel all over, like pitching...