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Tough, canny Mr. Cohu, World War I flyer and ex-board chairman of Northrop Aircraft Inc., lost no time in swinging his new broom-and his ax. He spent so much time flying from one TWA office to another that a TWA underling quipped: "The loneliest place in the company is the president's office in Kansas City...
Even vital experimental orders had been nipped by lack of cash. Northrop Aircraft wheeled out one experimental ship this week, a jet-propelled Flying Wing. But President Jack Northrop said that the Air Force had had to shelve a 600-m.p.h. 4,000-mile-range guided missile which could have been developed in three years, and substitute one that would go 1,400 m.p.h. but would probably take six to ten years to develop...
This position, much like that of Yale's Professor F. S. C. Northrop in The Meeting of East and West (TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), soon led him to conclude, among other things, that the "most disgraceful colonial problem in the world" is that of Negro-white relations in the U.S. Indian politics, always a great puzzle to Occidentals, seemed to him likewise a puzzle to Indians, because their political terminology was a misfit hand-me-down from the British. The paranoid touchiness in all the Indian factions, but especially in Pakistan's Moslems, he likened to what...
...m.p.h.; the Navy's carrier-based XFJ-1 jet fighter; Consolidated Vultee's gigantic six-motored B-36, the "Flying Cigar," which can carry a 10,000-lb. bomb load 5,000 miles and return to base; Consolidated's needle-slim XB-46, the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing, now being adapted to jet propulsion...
...legal priesthood by employing laymen to help train its lawyers. First, in 1928, Yale made Economist Walton Hamilton* a full law professor, without benefit of LL.B. Then it signed on Political Scientist Harold Lasswell. Last week Hamilton and Lasswell made room for another layman: Philosopher F. S. C. Northrop, author of The Meeting of East and West (TIME, Aug. 12). Northrop, who has been teaching philosophy at Yale College since 1923, will now teach jurisprudence at the Law School...