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Once he had learned that air, moving over a still airfoil, also generates lift, Custer went on to investigate the principle of the Venturi tube. He learned that the faster air flows through a tube with a narrow throat and flaring ends, the lower goes the pressure within the tube. With that primitive knowledge in hand, he decided that he could build a plane that would combine the advantages, of a helicopter with the speed of normal, fixed-wing aircraft. After some 20 years of tinkering, Custer completed a crude, full scale, flying model of a "Custer Channel Wing" airplane...
...effort. The trouble is really in the damp wall, they insist, and not in the air. They contend that the mural, which is painted directly on the plaster of the wall, must be peeled off somehow and pasted to a dry one. Rome's revered Art Critic Lionello Venturi, who refused to serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that they will not dare touch it. And by trying to preserve the sacred thing, they...
...start is a compact turbine developing 580 horsepower and driven by steam from a chemical reaction involving sodium or calcium permanganate and hydrogen peroxide. This runs pumps which force liquid oxygen and alcohol into the bulb-shaped combustion chamber. Reacting fiercely, they shoot a blast of gases through a venturi ring at about 6,000 ft. a second...
...background, L'Eglise et La Marne, Champigny. Another notable price was $2,100 for Jules Pascin's Girl in Green and Rose (see cut), a smoldering, libidinous canvas of a young woman en déshabillé, described in the Crowninshield catalog by Critic Lionello Venturi as a matter of "fascinating nacreous nuances." A Rouault-illustrated book brought...
Some participants on the schedule: Belgian appeals court President Henri Rolin (whom Hitler blitzed out); Italian Art Critic Lionello Venturi (whom Mussolini hounded out); Spanish Scholar Alfredo Mendizabal (whom Franco locked out); France's Surrealist Andre Masson, Mathematician Jacques Hadamard, Playwright Henri Bernstein, Novelist Julian Green; America's Philosopher James Bissett Pratt (Williams), Poet-Journalist James Rorty, Scholar Henri Maurice Peyre (Yale), Poet Critic John Peale Bishop...