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...rally will feature the usual hand numbers, members of the team, and also a new cheer, the "Skyrocket," which will be accompanied by a now start by the cheerleaders...
...begin, there were only 13 shows in Broadway's 30 playhouses, and all but one (Mike Todd's bosomy, bumptious Peep Show) were holdover hits from past seasons. During the summer, television networks had gobbled up three more legitimate theaters (making 16 to date). Production costs were skyrocket-high. Producers bemoaned the lack of new playwrights, and looked in vain for the open-handed angels of only a few years...
There were no skyrocket bursts of great, fresh genius, and among the novelists many an old hand had shown a faltering touch. But 1949's books, fiction and nonfiction, accurately and often brilliantly reflected the state of man and his world. They were books colored by personal questioning, confusion and discontent; but also showing through was a determination to express both personal and public dilemmas and to face them firmly. More than in recent years, fiction in 1949 leavened its cynicism with compassion. In a great deal of nonfiction, skepticism was tempered with American optimism: though happiness and order...
Last week at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., the Navy staged a press demonstration of the Skyrocket which was a face-reddening flop. The plane never got off the ground. But many earlier tests have been successful. The Skyrocket's top speed, not announced, is probably around 1,000 m.p.h...
With its swept-back wings and dual power plant, the Skyrocket is closer than the X-I to being a practical supersonic airplane. Flying on its turbojet alone, it has a respectable endurance: about half an hour. In combat, the rocket motor could give it brief bursts of superspeed...