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...invalid's gesture-it was one of the finest performances of Tristan und Isolde in recent years. The conductor was Sir Thomas Beecham, and the cast a group of top-flight singers, some from Manhattan's Metropolitan. Isolde spent her first act reclining on a shipboard divan, with the necessary business carried out by her maid Brangäne. The second-act love scene had perhaps the fittest staging in history: Tristan and Isolde sang on a couch. In the last act, Isolde was carried on stage by Tristan's old retainer Kurwenal and tenderly deposited beside...
...entertaining and useful reading for troops on transports, Science Service last week published a chatty, pocket-size book to be distributed by the American Red Cross. Its title: Science from Shipboard. Its purpose: to answer the questions that landlubbers debate at sea-waves and wind, stars and navigation, time and the calendar, sea life, oceanic birds, islands and shore lines, seasickness and homesickness, exposure and thirst...
Each chapter is written by a top-drawer expert (Kirtley Mather, Charles Franklin Brooks, Bart Jan Bok, Charles A. Federer Jr., Ralph Waldo Gerard and others), in chatty, informal style, simply illustrated, and at high-school level. No textbook, Science from Shipboard cuts ruthlessly across academic boundaries between the sciences, starts each topic with a direct human experience. Sample (by Harvard's Mather): "Like every ocean traveler you will be thrilled by each glimpse of land. . . . The most important idea that should be in your mind as you look at any shore is the fundamental fact that...
Science from Shipboard is published without profit. Written without hope of royalties, mostly by leading members of the American Association of Scientific Workers, it will be distributed to enlisted men on embarkation, sold in bookstores...
Almost all the operators who man the net entered the Army around the time of Pearl Harbor, came out to China after six months in radio schools, became fast friends on shipboard. Now they keep contact with each other only over...