Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gracie Allen's dippiness is a stage prop that accounts for most of Burns & Allen's reported $9,000-a-week radio salary. Off-mike, she is not always so dippy. As a guest on Information Please last summer, she stacked up favorably with the most select experts. On one Screen Guild show she played opposite James Cagney in a serious Irish playlet and did it well. One year U.S.C. psychology students, professing to find considerable sense behind Gracie's nonsense, voted her Hollywood's most intelligent actress...
...streamlined cabin with automobile-type doors. Strangest thing about it is that its engine, a 1,000 h. p., Prestone-cooled, inline Allison, is not in the nose, but behind the pilot. Built for sleek streamlining, the twelve-cylinder Allison (made by General Motors) drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room up front for Airacobra's most deadly fang: a 37-millimeter (1½ |inch) cannon which fires through the propeller hub. Alongside its cannon, biggest carried...