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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening last week Britain's No. 1 test pilot shut himself into what was probably the most advanced piece of air machinery ever to get beyond the blueprinting stage, and took off into the darkening sky. The pilot was Captain Geoffrey De Havilland, 37, crown prince of one of aviation's few dynasties. His father, Sir Geoffrey, heads the De Havilland Aircraft Co.; his younger brother John was killed (1943) in the collision of two planes. Since 1938, Captain Geoffrey had made every first flying test of De Havilland's aircraft...
...cause of Dr. Ferguson's long-suffering : WOR's Tello-Test quiz. On this five-a-week show, announcers telephone a housewife, offer $5 if she can answer a question in one minute. If she fails, another $5 is added, another number is called. Brooklyn listeners telephone the library as soon as they hear the question, hoping their number may be next. The library's calm is shattered during every broadcast. Concluded Dr. Ferguson stiffly: "The identification of 'Lemonade Lucy'* or the architect of the White House . . . seems of small moment...
Died. Geoffrey De Havilland, 37, Britain's leading test pilot; in a midair explosion while testing a new De Havilland jet plane; over the Thames Estuary, England (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., writing in the October "Atlantic Monthly," has pointed out that the outcome of the struggle between Republicans and Democrats for control of the House of Representatives this fall will test little more than the relative efficiency of the two political machines in the numerous congressional districts and not the validity of the issues which divided the Seventy Ninth Congress, issues which cut across party lines--the O.P.A., the F.E.P.C., the British loan, the draft, and others. The Republicans, for instance, taking advantage of post-war American apathy to foreign and domestic affairs, are hoping...
...Hagerstown school children revealed that 479 little boys and 86 little girls had ringworm. After trying hair pulling and 17 different salves, doctors finally brought the epidemic under control. Most effective method: an ointment made of salicylanilide. Daily rubbings-on for two months cured 57% of the first test group; a later test cured...