Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calculating machines which eat up equations as quickly as small boys gobble peanuts. Last week Harvard University dedicated its new Computation Laboratory, devoted solely to overgrown abaci, their design, construction, care & feeding. Two hundred scientists, engineers, mathematicians gathered to hear the latest plans, and to yearn for more calculators. Mark I, Harvard's first, was operating. The electronic entrails of Mark II, under construction for the Navy, were still in the semiassembled stage...
...Harvard & Navy. Mark I is working round the clock. All day & night a river of figures streams through its insides. Four hours it works for Harvard. The rest of the time it works for the Navy, on such problems as calculating the way of a rocket in the stratosphere, influenced by air resistance, wind pressure, gravity, and the earth's rotation, and other more subtle factors...
...time to get in a few licks on a World War I destroyer. During World War II he commanded a destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct demobilization of the swollen Navy, serving as assistant chief of BuPers (Bureau of Naval Personnel). If past averages hold, he'll spend about three years as superintendent...
Swell Guy (Mark Hellinger; Universal-International) is a full-length portrait of a slob (Sonny Tufts). He is a famed, chaotically incompetent war correspondent who can fool practically everybody in the postwar world except his fellow reporters, his mother and, in rare, lucid moments, himself...
Such studies of just how low a louse can crawl, though stylish among amateurs of the psychopathic, are seldom more interesting, dramatically, than watching a real louse crawl from one point to another. Yet Producer Mark (The Killers) Hellinger and his colleagues have provided a good many compensations. The town's "class" bar and company picnic, and most of the-supporting performances, are unusually shrewd keyhole glimpses of U.S. provincial life. Sonny Tufts's transformation from a big, pleasant male ingenue to a resourceful actor is as impressive as it is startling. With plenty of assistance from script...