Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lockheed engineers had designed and installed an elaborate fire detection and extinguishing system within the engine nacelles. Another protection item of dubious appeal to unsuspecting airline passengers: an easily melting engine mounting, which would allow a blazing motor to fall off before the fire wall in the wing was breached...
...empty little church around the corner from Broadway got a new congregation last week: 415 prewar show people. All had come home from the wars with stage fright. To help them over it, the American Theater Wing, which ran the Stage Door Canteen, had rented the church, set up a theater school for ex-servicemen & women-professional show people only...
...Theater Wing had lined up a topflight faculty: Producers Oscar Hammerstein and Brock Pemberton, Director Margaret Webster, Choreographers Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins, Designer Donald Oenslager, Theatrical Pressagent Richard Maney, CBS's Worthington Miner, some 100 other theater and radio names. Most of them would take part in the most popular course: the theater symposium, a big bull session designed to brief students on developments in their business during the last four years...
...conservative-fundamentalist wing of all denominations "has, in effect, withdrawn from the cultural scene and taken its Christianity with it. . . . Thus, in a kind of cloistered isolation, conservatism has been running on the momentum of the Christian tradition, rather than on the perennial dynamics of the Christian faith." It has failed to recognize "the challenge to make Christianity intelligible and potent in the present historical situation...
Died. Antoinette Perry, 58, one of Broadway's few successful woman directors (Strictly Dishonorable, Harvey); of heart disease; in Manhattan. Tony Perry, ever the angel of tyro actors, was the wartime guiding spirit of the American Theatre Wing, left her heart at its seven Stage Door Canteens across the nation...