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Thinking & Thunder. Both artists set out to show Nebraskans what their State looks like. Ranged on the walls of a David City municipal basketball court, Dale Nichols' pictures said it was a slick, sweet place. In Shelby's old mortuary, Terence Duren posted a tougher pictorial message. In his canvases, picnic wrappings were left on the ground, fat rolls and wrinkles decorated ladies' faces...
Fellow-townsmen took sides. Little Shelby accused bigger David City (pop. 2,272) of stealing Duren's thunder with the Nichols show. The artists themselves took up prepared positions behind cornstalks, and blazed away. Nichols: "I shall never be guilty of painting in the style or viewpoint of Terence Duren. Never! Never!" Duren: "It is easy to recognize that Mr. Nichols cannot draw people . . . save at the safe distance at which he conceals all lack of knowledge of anatomical detail. I concur heartily: Mr. Nichols will never draw or paint like I do. Never...
...Finish. Thunder & lightning rumbled and flashed in the early morning of July 16 when the final test was to be made. The bomb was carefully mounted on a steel tower hung with instruments to record the effects of the explosion...
...Thunder in the Street. In Manhattan, a few minutes before 10 a.m., workers in the midtown towers heard a plane close by - very close. It thundered past the stark, stone structures of Rockefeller Center. On the streets below, pedestrians startled by the low-flying craft looked up, saw Old John Feather Merchant barely miss a 60-floor building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Then the craft, southbound, pulled up into the cloud...
With a service ceiling of 45,000 ft., it can thunder along at 550 m.p.h. Stories of its vast speed include one that a P-80 was flown from California to New York in three hours and 57 minutes. (Best previous nonstop time: six hours, 39½ minutes). Its power is a kerosene-burning jet engine: it has no propeller. Its round nose houses six 50-cal. machine guns. On its wings it can carry either bombs or fuel tanks. Wings and torpedo-like fuselage are painted and polished to the slickness...