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Careful Expansion. Even the aircraft industry, which had a $4.2 billion bite of defense funds, was revving up slowly. In Wichita, Boeing Airplane announced it would increase its 10,000-man work force by 50%, but so far has hired only 908 workers, mostly highly skilled mechanics. In other plants there was no stampede, just careful expansion...
...spaces around Amarillo and Canyon, Texas, spins a conventional story in scenes that are not too incredible: Sterling and young Barrymore are trying to run an honest ranch, but the cattle rustlers won't let them. Out of the West rides their long-lost black sheep brother, Kid Wichita (Robert Preston), a killer with an all-round mean reputation. Before law & order can be restored, various good & bad actors are plugged through the heart, shot in the back, or, like Barrymore, simply wounded. The girl (Cathy Downs) suffers through every...
Will this sort of instruction really work? Some educators have taken it seriously enough to give it a try. The Institute of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University is considering using it in an extracurricular course. The Institute of Logopedics in Wichita, Kans. is experimenting to see if it will help cure speech defects. For two years, Charles R. Elliott, psychologist at the University of North Carolina, ran tests with another pillow-mike apparatus which its inventor, bubbly little President Max Sherover of the Linguaphone Institute, calls a "cerebrograph." Psychologist Elliott found that a student who has been subjected...
Died. Henry Justin Allen, 81, onetime editor (Topeka State Journal), governor of Kansas (1919-23) and U.S. Senator (1929-30), longtime foe of the New Deal; in Wichita, Kans. G.O.P. publicity director during the 1928 campaign, Allen was appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect Charles Curtis...
...Government did. Dr. Warren was convicted last April by a federal jury in Wichita and sentenced to two years in prison. He appealed, arguing that he had acted within the freedom of speech and religion guaranties of the Bill of Rights...