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What people actually saw was a statement about aluminum. Said tiny, independent Northrop Aircraft Inc.'s General Manager Lamotte T. Cohu (in Los Angeles): "There simply isn't enough aluminum available. . . . [It is] bound to affect other aircraft concerns." Mr. Cohu was explaining why he had just cut his factory working day from 20 to 16 hours (in two shifts). His explanation shortly stirred up a rumpus...
Though only ten years old, lightweight football already has its Immortals: Yale's Doug Northrop, who punted 84½ yards during the 1934 game with Penn (longest punt on record until Al Braga of the University of San Francisco punted 89 yards in a varsity game three years ago); Rutgers' Pomp Chandler, twinkle-toed Negro who led the little Scarlet through three undefeated seasons; Yale's Dave Boies, who in 1936, before a crowd of 12,000, kicked a last-minute field goal that handed Rutgers its first defeat in four years; Princeton's Buster Bedford...
...variety of viewpoints represented on an executive committee which was set up. That committee includes Chairman Finkelstein, Critic Van Wyck Brooks, Educators Lyman Bryson and Lawrence K. Frank, Biophysicist Caryl P. Haskins, Political Scientist Harold D. Lasswell, Sociologist Robert M. Maclver, Physicist Robert J. Havighurst, Philosopher Filmer S. C. Northrop, Catholic Theologians Gerald B. Phelan and Gerald G. Walsh, Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Dean Luther A. Weigle of the Yale Divinity School. There was small hope that such men of good will could do the job before them in time to affect World...
Last week the "open meeting" was wide open: a four-night Bach Festival, first of its kind in the Northwest. Bach fans heard an orchestra concert, an organ recital, the Mass in B Minor, the St. John Passion, in the University's big Northrop Memorial Auditorium. If the singers were not yet ready for comparison with such seasoned Bachsters as the Bethlehem, Pa. Choir, they were nevertheless remarkably good...
...plant building boom. At Paterson (N. J.) Curtiss-Wright's Wright Aeronautical Corp., flush with $7,000,000 of new Army business, got ready last week to build 300,000 sq. ft. of new floor space. In California -at Inglewood, San Diego, Hawthorne-North American Aviation, Consolidated Aircraft, Northrop, planned new buildings. Newest centre of U. S. aircraft's effort to reach the stature of a mass instead of unit producing industry is Detroit, where 27 companies have been officially approved as parts suppliers for war planes...