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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With Wings (Paramount) is the first Technicolor picture with an aeronautical background. It is also the first picture with an aeronautical background that attempts to take the long view of flying, not as hazardous profession or exciting adventure but as the latest and most spectacular chapter in the long history of transport. Starting with the Wright Brothers' first, incredible, 59-second hop, Men With Wings proceeds, with great pictorial beauty and praiseworthy attention to authenticity, to run through the whole amazing chronicle of aviation. For its intention and for its photographic content the picture deserves to rank...
Fiberglas will not yet make dresses; they would be too heavy. But since it is non-inflammable and can take color (asbestos cannot), it is well suited for curtains, rugs, hangings. For house insulation it is lighter than rock wool. For air conditioning it makes a fibrous filter which scours air of dirt and moisture. For wire insulation it is more compact, sometimes more economical than cotton, which must be made non-inflammable or used with rubber...
...Spanish Civil War. And as such it illustrates Malraux's theory of fiction-that the real news of the modern world can be better told in novels than in newspapers; that novelists, if they are to save their art from puerility, must fight for their beliefs, take part in events, and in lulls between the battles jot down their records of what they have actually seen...
...would take a Soviet spy ring to discover when the H.A.A. ticket booth is not crowded and hot and stuffy...
Supplementary trials for inter-House teams will take place tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Leverett Common Room. Subjects of the trials, for men who missed the individual House trials, are: Roosevelt's third term, the Reorganization bill, athletic scholarships, and movies: beneficial or harmful. Trials speeches are to be three minutes long...