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...Rhode Island, who states, "without fear of error," that he has been a TIME subscriber for 28 years. Writes the judge: "I can hardly believe that TIME is about to hit the 30-year milepost. Time flies because TIME is so companionable and so frequently engrossing. World events whirl so fast that the human eye would not be able to see them in their proper perspective or the human mind to analyze them accurately were it not that TIME, with its world-covering service, brings them to one's home weekly in such enjoyable and understandable form...
...Super Connie gets its extra speed and range from four of Curtiss-Wright's new 3,250 h.p. turbo-compounded engines, which use the previously wasted exhaust blast to whirl three small turbine wheels, giving 20% more power to the propeller shaft. With them, the Super Connie reaches a cruising speed of 340 m.p.h., or 13 miles faster than the non-compounded Super Connies already being flown by Eastern Airlines and T.W.A. The U.S. Navy will get the first model late this month. In March, Lockheed will deliver the first commercial model to Royal Dutch Airlines...
Suddenly there's a new clamor for change, lots of change. The merriest madness we've seen in a fashion editor's time is to dress for drinks. The recipe: just a bottle or so, a glass or two and a whirl of the imagination...
Born in Berlin of Egyptian parents (35 years ago, by ungallant guess), Sadika went to Cairo after war broke out, and set up a perfume shop. Says she: "I've liked selling ever since." In the social whirl of Cairo, Sadika met Mouhsine Garagozlou,handsome young Persian diplomat. Sadika married Mouhsine and moved on to the gayer life of the Persian court. But she still pined to go back into business...
...social whirl, John Sparkman relaxes by gardening, sometimes shoots a "terrible" game of golf (low 100s). A staunch Methodist, he teaches an adult Bible class at Washing ton's Hamline Church. (In 1944, when asked to describe his idea of Heaven, Sparkman offered this modest vision: ". . . Heaven must afford an opportunity of again meeting . . . our loved ones ... I am sure that in Heaven there must be an opportunity for purposeful work, always with a glorious accomplishment rather than a failure as the result...