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...heroic, traditional act of bailing out with a parachute is getting less and less popular as airplanes fly faster and higher. Pilots have landed alive (though in poor condition) after bailing out above the speed of sound (TIME, Nov. 21), but according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...
Tentatively scheduled to open Nov. 29, the Rossini opera will be the Guild's first production in a planned program which will include at least two performances a year...
...Matt Ridgway), to be Supreme Allied Commander in 1953. Said Al Gruenther: "I've played tennis three times this week, and intend to win another match tomorrow." He was going to retire at the age of 57, he said, because "I entered military service as an officer on Nov. , 1918. I was a lieutenant for 16½years. I kept wondering why people at the top didn't retire, why they had to stay on until the last minute. Now I find that I have been a general officer for 14 years. It has been occurring...
Guys and Dolls. Sam Goldwyn's adaptation of the Broadway musical; with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine and plenty of moxie (TIME, Nov...
Guys and Dolls. Sam Goldwyn's $5,000,000 adaptation of the Broadway musical; with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine and plenty of moxie (TIME, Nov...