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...question that Detroit's methods are different; there is a question of how flexible they may prove if design changes come too thick & fast. Detroit's biggest single venture into aircraft-the titanic Ford plant at Willow Run-has yet to show its stuff. Last week peacock-proud Charlie Sorensen showed newsmen the first B-24-E bomber off Willow Run's half-mile long assembly lines, predicted a ship an hour by late summer. Said he: "[This plant] is an invitation for Hitler to commit suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Dutch v. Charlie | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...stone-deaf Lady Strickland's Maltese garden a land mine blew the tail feathers off her prize peacock, blew Lady Strickland off her feet. She remarked, as she got up: "At last I've heard something." Last week all the Maltese heard something they had been waiting long to hear: thunders of noise that meant an even chance of pasting the enemy back after almost two years of being pasted. Malta had gotten important reinforcements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Malta Spits Back | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...fragrance of incense, the throb of Russian choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Icons in Baltimore | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Pole vault-R. Sheridan, Andover, 12 feet; second, L. Wright, Harvard, and Peacock, Dartmouth; fourth, Rogerson, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN VICTORS IN TRIANGLE MEET | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

...charm. Its reconstruction of World War I society is very near the life. So are the performances of young Croft and Miss Colbert. This first-rate melding of an understanding script (Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott) with superior photography (George Barnes) and music (Alfred Newman) is a peacock feather in Director Henry King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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