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...Poser. U.S. commercial airmen went on brooding. A heated domestic battle over which and how many U.S. lines will be allowed to share the postwar world skies has been simmering for months. In this melee Juan Trippe maintained his invariable public silence, his invariable private views: whether or not the U.S. has more than one international airline is up to the Government; but: 1) Pan Am has shown itself more than able to do all the peacetime world flying the U.S. has done up to now; 2) every other nation that has tried multiple international airlines has found them wanting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Trippe Bats One | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...fencing never become popular in the U.S.? Aldo Nadi, world fencing champion, has brooded over that poser ever since he arrived in the U.S. to teach the sport eight years ago. His conclusion: Americans consider fencing sissy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swordsman | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Topics have ranged from the spiritual and economic future of Britain to the flight of the house fly. A bomber-command pilot stirred up a national crisis in entomology by asking "How does a fly land on a ceiling? Does it loop the loop, or what?" This was a poser to all the experts, including Professor Huxley, and the more they thought about it the less sure they became. That night, in pubs all over England, flies were shooed zealously toward ceilings, fly-watchers argued long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Brains | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

After 13 minutes of aimless chitchat by the actors, this unpleasant poser is finally planted on the drooping shoulders of Thomas Mitchell, a golden-hearted old college professor whose days are numbered by heart disease. Along come a former star pupil (Jeffrey Lynn) and his pretty wife (Geraldine Fitzgerald) whose happy home has been upset by a prowling, pernicious femme fatale (Mona Maris). Mitchell tracks her down with such professorial precision, makes such painfully punctilious notes on her case that his conclusion that she is loaded with "greed, selfishness and brutality" will come as a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...quiz program, for Chocolate Products Co. (syrup), over a CBS California network 10 to 10:30 a.m. P.S.T. Saturdays : Stillicious Kids' Quizaroo. Sample poser: Shirley Temple is an ancient Greek ruin. True or false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Shows | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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