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...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 (79,494 ft.) than any other...
...helped revolutionize teaching techniques. Instead of long hours of practicing scales, moppets are now taught to play simple tunes in their first few lessons. Piano classes, instead of individual lessons, also help by giving them a chance to compete with one another while learning such old standbys as The Maiden's Prayer. Some piano dealers have set up classes in industrial plants. Detroit's Grinnell Bros., for example, gives lessons to 120 Ford workers each week. In Chicago, the Kimball piano company makes things easy by distributing specially printed music in which the notes are indicated by little...
Titanic (20th Century-Fox) dramatizes the greatest of modern maritime disasters: the sinking of R.M.S. Titanic on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912, with a loss of 1,513 lives. Around this celebrated tragedy, Titanic weaves a less than epic story that involves an assortment of fictional shipboard characters: a middle-aged couple (Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck) fighting over the upbringing of their children; a collegian (Robert Wagner) in love with the daughter (Audrey Dalton); an unfrocked priest (Richard Basehart), a wealthy, wisecracking American widow (Thelma Ritter...
...picture has some real-looking backgrounds, but the goings-on frequently appear spurious. Sample dialogue, as a couple of meteorologists encounter a glamorous Mongol maiden en route: Q. "You made a hit with the girl. How did you do it?" A. "My training as a meteorologist. I can take one look at a girl and tell whether...
This was likely to endear Lodge more to his fellow citizens than to fellow U.N. diplomats, who regard handshakes between antagonists, however bloody, as good form. Lodge made a better impression on the diplomats next day, when in his maiden speech he pinned responsibility for continuing the war where it belongs...