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...labored into the skies over California's Muroc Army Air Base. To its duralumin bosom it clutched a precious burden: the Bell Aircraft Corp.'s rocket-propelled XS-1, a plane designed to fly more than 1,000 miles an hour. At 27,000 feet, the stub-winged, orange-colored XS-1 was released to begin its first power flight. It dropped heavily-300, 600, 800 feet. Then the rocket engine in its tail belched flame and it spurted ahead...
Someone once compared Critic John Forster to a pencil stub-"short, thick, and full of lead." In writing his classic Life of Charles Dickens, Forster presented the public with only the best of the man who was his best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
With a big smile and 18 brown wood pens with stub steel nibs (which he passed out to friends), Harry S. Truman signed the Employment Act of 1946. It was only a shadow of the original "full employment" bill, which contained Government assurance of a job to everybody who wanted one. But it might still, with luck, become almost as important as Harry Truman seemed to consider...
Latter-Day Experts. Last week, back in wrecked Vienna, dressed in shorts and puffing clouds of blue smoke from his stub-stemmed pipe, Gedye was once again a familiar figure in his beloved city. He sat in the British mess hall where correspondents eat, listening to ex-police reporters who are now self-styled Mitteleuropa experts, expounding on Austrian politics. He spoke only when he was spoken...
Sitting at his gigantic mahogany desk (the biggest he could buy at Marshall Field's), stub-legged James Caesar Petrillo, czar of U.S. musicians, picked up the receiver. Mr. Trammell said he would like to see Mr. Petrillo soon in New York. Barked Caesar Petrillo: "I'll come only if you're ready to sign. I'm damned tired of all the meetings we've had in the last 28 months...