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...handful of top-flight naval aviators in a Navy building projection room in Washington last week intently watched the latest Walt Disney film. It was no Donald Duck comedy they were watching, but the newest training film for Navy fighter pilots. It was also another achievement for a veteran airman whom Navy flyers recognize as their best fighter tactician...
This was no invalid's gesture-it was one of the finest performances of Tristan und Isolde in recent years. The conductor was Sir Thomas Beecham, and the cast a group of top-flight singers, some from Manhattan's Metropolitan. Isolde spent her first act reclining on a shipboard divan, with the necessary business carried out by her maid Brangäne. The second-act love scene had perhaps the fittest staging in history: Tristan and Isolde sang on a couch. In the last act, Isolde was carried on stage by Tristan's old retainer Kurwenal...
Beefy Senator Bennett Champ Clark, isolationist from Missouri who voted against the extension of Selective Service four months before Pearl Harbor, paid a token installment on a political grudge against a top-flight soldier last week. He got the Senate to postpone its confirmation of Lieut. General Ben Lear's rank...
...monthly output runs to 1,000,000 copies. Every month, in its Manhattan offices, it culls and reprints a selection of popular tunes. Within a few weeks every U.S. Army company from North Africa to Guadalcanal is supplied with a new batch of sheet music. A committee of top-flight U.S. entertainers (Fred Waring, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Dinah Shore, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, etc.) gladly act as song judges...
This week the Christian Science Monitor, chosen from among more than 1,000 top-flight U.S. dailies, won the 13th annual Francis Wayland Ayer award for typographical excellence. Such recognition was long overdue...