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...Russians have a staggering edge on the Western Allies. There are at least 750 first-line jet and piston fighters on the Reds' 29 East German airfields; attack and dive bombers are present in impressive force...
...nine-year-old Ballet Imperial). His flowing Serenade (1935), fluidly danced, got a big hand. So did Jerome Robbins' new (1950) Age of Anxiety, danced to Leonard Bernstein's jazzy symphony score. By the time the first-night curtain went down on another Balanchine number, his piston-precise Symphony in C, the audience had been captured. The whole company had to skip on & off stage for 17 curtain calls...
...Sewanee's All Saints' Chapel last week, a capacity crowd of 600 heard the second concert in the festival's survey. The audience was lulled into false security with some Haydn and Mozart quartets, then given the business: Walter Piston's new (1949) piano quintet, with Harris' wife Johana ("Lady Jo") at the piano. Written in modern idiom, with awkward, angular intervals, grating harmonies and jolting semi-jazz rhythms, it left its listeners bewildered and politely awed. When it was over, the audience stood up (applause in the chapel was ruled out) to show...
This burly airplane the Douglas XA2D Skyshark, is a Navy attack on a pressing problem: how to fly modern bombers off carriers. Straight jets are difficult because they have little thrust on takeoff, and so find the flight deck cramped. Old style bombers (Piston engines and propellers) are not fast enough...
...flying laboratory," General Electric Co. gives striking proof of the power of a jet engine. To test a new jet G.E. slings it under the bomb bay of a heavy B29. With its four 2,400-h.p. piston engines roaring, the bomber takes off and climbs to high altitude. Then the jet is started and its performance studied under varying conditions of speed, air density and temperature...