Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever is a tireless, able, dedicated, imaginative officer who is respected both as an executive and as an engineer. He has learned in the wind tunnel of the America of the '30s, '40s and '50s the best concepts and best context of his community. "Action," "dynamic" and "capability" are among his favorite words, and all three have come to a knot in Missileman Schriever at a critical point in time. "We simply...
...five or six new and unproven planes a day, all the way up to the B-17 which was then in modest production. He moved on to Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School (mornings devoted to intricate work in the classrooms; afternoons to project work in the wind tunnel, propeller and engine test labs), and made a place and a future and a lot of friends for himself in the vanguard of the Air Corps' technological frontier force...
...When the Wind Blows, a family tragedy by George Staples, shows serious thought, solid dramatic potential, and a great debt to Long Day's Journey Into Night. Although the cast often does not reach potential depths of character, both Ed Walsh, as the younger son who revolts, and Yvonne Korshak, as the aging but eager aunt, bring excellent consistent emotion into earnestly wrought characterizations. After her beautifully timed hula dance during dinner, the high point of the play, the stage suffers from loose writing and looser pacing. Director Lumbard lacked the experience to build through to the end; his staging...
...anesthetized patient on the operating table was a man of 50 whose heart had been seriously damaged by rheumatic fever. Electrodes taped to his ankles and wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then...
...believed the plane, trying to ditch at night in wind-tossed 30-foot seas, cracked up and sank quickly before life rafts could be launched...