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...election of one Common Wealth M.P. did not prove that either capitalism or Winston Churchill is finished in Britain. It did prove that the people of Eddisbury are dissatisfied with the static, enervating truce which now binds their established parties and the Churchill Government...
...Coast together has had to wait till the right manager could be found. This week the producers thought they had him: greying, 38-year-old Frank F. Russell, who went from Yale ('26) to Wall Street, in 1939 became president of National Aviation Corp., a low-earning, almost static investment trust. His big job since the war has been to act as liaison man and trouble shooter for Bell, Lockheed and half a dozen other concerns of which he is director. His assets: geniality, toughness, a precise, realistic knowledge of almost every factory floor in the industry...
With one exception all the prints were non-instantaneous photographs of static subjects. They made it clear that for a half century Stieglitz has been a superb camera technician and artist, scornful of trickery and flash. The 1889 experiment with sunlight seeping through the Venetian blinds in Paula (see cut) was no less experimental, no less successful than Car 2F 77-77 (1935), where a house and trees are seen mirrored in the shining surface of an automobile...
Basye ordered the radioman to tune in San Francisco. As the ship rocked and pitched in the tremendous currents from the gorge, the first strains of Christmas carols began to penetrate the static of our tight earphones. We could make out a beautiful chorus of clear, feminine sopranos. The static cleared away briefly and a ringing male tenor took up Come, All Ye Faithful. Then there was an organ, and after that the entire chorus joined him. After that there was some news and a commentator telling how we were winning the war. We didn't listen to that...
Ruled out by the former President were another months-long armistice, the green-baize conference tables and the static "peace" formulas that followed World War I. Instead, Herbert Hoover proposed a peace in two stages...