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Butler emphasized that the rally was not being called off because Army is heavily favored to win. "Although I take a realistic view and admit that cheering in the game will be like cheering for a termite in Redwood Forest, this is not the reason the rally has been cancelled. Rallies are an end in themselves...
...three years Hap Arnold sat on the redwood chairs he made himself in his woodworking shop and looked across the California valley. He wasn't exactly quiet: he wrote a book, and burst into print regularly with charges that the Air Force had been cut to "a one-punch outfit" by postwar economizers. When summoned by a congressional committee investigating charges of skulduggery in the procurement of the B-36, Arnold snapped brusquely: "Let's get this straight! You can't buy aircraft as you buy beans. I want it understood that no one man is responsible...
Indoors & Out. Neutra's house for the B.s had been finished and occupied by last week. Viewed from the street it lay along the hillside like an airy fort, constructed of redwood, rosy-beige stucco and plate glass. A solidly railed, angular deck jutted out at one side; a larger, unrailed deck of slat-grill redwood served as the entrance porch. The living room was an 18 by 32 ft. rectangle staggered irregularly by a guest closet, bookcases, birch-trimmed dining alcove and flagstone hearth. Along one wall were 27 ft. of plate glass windows, with sliding draperies...
When the newsmen went to see the house, out in the nearby Virginia woods, they found a plain 14 ft. 8½ in. by 36 ft. 8¼ in. structure, of plywood walls inside and redwood walls outside, insulated with aluminum foil and wool. Besides picture windows and a cozy fireplace, the house has a small bedroom separated by a draw curtain from the living room. The living room can also be converted into a second bedroom. The house is heated by a system of glass-radiant heaters that plug into sockets, throw off infra-red rays which warm...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Albert William Stevens, 63, holder of the world's altitude record for manned balloons; after long illness; in Redwood City, Calif. A top-notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record...