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Washington society noted an unlamented loss in Mrs. Harry S. Truman. At a party for Mrs. Perle Mesta, new U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, new Treasurer of the U.S., Bess Truman displayed a new silhouette, 20 pounds slimmer than the old one. Her dietary secret: eating just what the President does, but passing up the salt...
...present restrictions on foreign exploration, a loan "would be a disservice" to it and the U.S. Since oilmen guessed that Canada, in five years or so, would be one of the world's major producers of oil, it looked as though the longer Mexico waited, the slimmer would grow its chances of developing its oil lands...
...famous German V2, designed in 1939, still holds the altitude record for single-stage rockets: 114 miles.* This week the U.S. Navy showed pictures of the Viking, designed to top the V2. The Viking is slimmer and lighter (10,000 Ibs.) than the V-2 (see cut). In the picture, the complicated structure to the left of the rising rocket is a "gantry": a staging from which technicians can reach all parts of the rocket as it stands on its launching platform. When the rocket is ready for launching, the gantry is moved away...
...pilot bed is that a pilot lying down does not have as much frontal area as a pilot sitting up. This was not very important with old-fashioned propeller planes. There was plenty of space for a seated pilot behind a reciprocating engine. But jet engines are slimmer and designers have learned to fold tanks and guns into nose and wings. To take full advantage of lower frontal areas, pilots may have to stretch out in the direction of the airstream...
Whatever its resemblances to Williams' other plays, the play he meant to write in Slimmer and Smoke is easy to approve of. The only trouble is, he has not written it. It remains only a lucid diagram. Summer and Smoke has moments of sad, sharp insight, but little coherence and intensity as a whole. The reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry...