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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Major General William H. Tunner: "We look upon the airlift not as an end in itself. It is an exercise in the technique of using big airplanes in a manner hitherto unknown...
...triumph of organization and improvisation that made it possible is what Tunner means by "using airplanes in a manner hitherto unknown." For strategists the airlift has a meaning far beyond its immediate goal of feeding blockaded Berlin. The U.S. Army has never fought a major foreign campaign more than 300 miles from salt water. Suppose it had to fight in the heart of a continent? An airlift like Berlin's might be the answer...
Last week, San Francisco was learning fast enough who Italo Tajo is. As Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville, his booming and clowning had stopped the show-"the kind of show-stopping," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein, "which makes an unknown artist a star . . . Like Feodor Chaliapin before him, Italo Tajo could easily take to the road with a company playing nothing but The Barber of Seville...
Cannibalism is a rare but not unknown practice in the magazine business. Last week Street & Smith got ready to gobble its eleven-year-old Pic.* Once a cheap pictorial stuffed with cheesecake, Pic had been restyled in 1945 as a serious magazine for young men. It was not making money, but circulation had grown to 622,000 a month (compared to its rival Esquire's 665,076). Thus, Editor Vic Wagner and his staff were surprised when they got the bad news: their magazine would be killed with the December issue, to give its paper and press time...
Danzig's confrere, Lincoln A. Werden, hailed "the emergence of Harvard as a topflight team. Entering the contest an unknown factor to most observers, the Crimson ran on its repertoire of plays with a thoroughness and efficiency sufficient to rock the Lions in the first half and then carried out its assignments of newly installed Michigan style of attack so well that it left a determined Columbia eleven for short of a cherished victory...