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More than 200 modern verse enthusiasts crowded into Sever 11 yesterday afternoon to hear poetess Marianne Moore recite four of her lyrics in one of the shortest Morris Gray readings ever held. The whole meeting lasted less than half an hour...
...Army engineer and a Greek peasant. The engineer was taking a sight through his transit along a rural road when the countryman rode up on a donkey. The Greek watched in mystified silence for some time, and then asked the American what he was up to. "Measuring the shortest distance between this point and that village over there," explained the American. "Well," the peasant muttered half to himself, "that certainly seems a complicated way to do such a simple job." "Is that so?" asked the engineer. "And just how would you go about it?" "Well," said the Greek...
Their notion was that it was small towns, not big towns, that needed air service the most. Airline oldtimers scoffed. There was not enough traffic in the small burgs, they said. Besides, on short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste so much time on the ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes...
...mission of mercy") against Hyderabad, whose predominantly Hindu population was ruled by a stubborn Moslem Nizam. The would-be war correspondents sped 180 miles toward the front, found that the war was over by the time they got there. All in all, it had been one of the shortest, happiest wars ever seen. Cabled Lubar...
...starting out very modestly on the shortest possible shoestring," explained General Manager John T. McManus, former TIME and PM writer and leftish ex-president of the New York local of the American Newspaper Guild. He was mum on who supplied the shoestring. Top editors will be British-born Cedric Belfrage, onetime cinema critic for the London Daily Express, and James Aronson, New York newsman. Among the contributors: Author Louis Adamic, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the Churchman; Roger (American Past) Butterfield, Sportwriter John Lardner and his screenwriter brother Ring Jr. (one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"); Max Werner...