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...beautiful fellow scientist Faith Domergue try to escape, they are scooped into a flying saucer and whizzed off to the planet of Metaluna to help their hard-pressed host fight off some neighboring spacemen. The interplanetary war that follows has Metaluna looking like a giant pinball machine screaming "Tilt!" in seven different colors. What with dodging flaming meteors and grappling with odious mutants (half-human and half-insect monsters that have a weakness for female earthlings), Rex and Faith are mighty lucky to grab a seat on the last spaceship back to earth...
...Bell is experimenting with convertiplanes that have huge rotorlike propellers which take the plane up, then tilt 90° forward for horizontal flight. Not to be confused with convertiplanes are the Navy's Convair XFV1 and Lockheed XFV-1, which take off and land vertically on their tails, merely nose over for level flight...
...best Crimson ball club in at least a decade will travel to Philadelphia today to play an average Penn team in the varsity's fourth Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League game of the year. Following the tilt with the Quakers, the team will go to Princeton and continue its quest of the EIBL championship against the Tigers tomorrow...
...notable event: the world premiere of a new SEAN O'CASEY play. Mindful of the past, the law was ready. The first-night crowd was peppered with uniformed police and plainclothesmen, alert for action should the Dubliners repeat their 1926 objections to an O'Casey tilt with convention. Lester Bernstein of TIME'S London bureau was on hand to report the opening night of The Bishop's Bonfire (see THEATER...
...upset, always a strong possibility in this annual tilt, will depend mainly on the Eli's ability to repeat its early season performance when it defeated Boston College and Brown...