Word: unorthodox
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Diversion. Weeks before, the Japs had been drawn northward by two threats on Mandalay. The enemy rushed armor to meet those threats. Then, in daring and unorthodox thrusts, Lieut. General Sir William J. Slim got forces across the Irrawaddy river 80 miles south of Mandalay. With Jap strength stalled in the north, General Slim's tanks dashed 85 miles to Meiktila. In that area, in a five-day battle, his Britons and Gurkhas captured eight airfields and severed rail and road lines from Rangoon (TIME, March...
Author of this idea was unorthodox Physicist Felix Ehrenhaft, whom most of his colleagues consider a champion leaper-to-a-conclusion. Last year Dr. Ehrenhaft started a sharp argument among physicists by announcing that magnetism has currents which flow like electricity (TIME, May 22). At a Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society last week, he told how he had projected a very fine light beam vertically in a glass tube, then dropped into the beam microscopic particles of matter (e.g., chromium). When the particles were smaller than the light's wave length, they fell straight down. But bigger...
Dodds' unorthodox style had changed little since he ran his first (and involuntary) race. As a boy in Falls City, Neb., he threw a stone at Lloyd Hahn's passing automobile. When the then great runner stopped to give chase, he could not catch the chunky culprit. But Hahn recognized a future champion when he saw one, made young Dodds his prot...
...stock, roughly $1,000,000 on a $25,000,000 issue. So he sat down with his old friend, Floyd B. Odium, boss of risk-taking Atlas Corp., who has long hankered to invest more of his corporation's idle cash in airlines. They worked out an unorthodox deal by which 1) Trippe will get his $25,000,000; 2) Odium will get his chance to invest-but no underwriter...
Died. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, 76, unorthodox former rector of Manhattan's venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie; in Washington. Appointed rector of quiet, 145-year-old St. Mark's in 1911, handsome, Scottish-born Dr. Guthrie quickly displayed a talent for religious showmanship, installed colored lights, gongs and incense, asked non-believers like Dancer Isadora Duncan to speak at services, symbolically tethered a black sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas...