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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never got to be much good at it, and who cared? Painting, Churchill decided, suited him down to the ground. "There is no subject," he wrote, "on which I feel more humble or yet at the same time more natural . . . Painting a picture is like fighting a battle ... If you need something to occupy your leisure, to divert your mind from the daily round . . . there is close at hand a wonderful new world of thought and craft, a sunlit garden gleaming with light and colour...
...Yet for all his short-cut courses in psychiatry, the moviegoer has been shown very little of what can happen to him when he.ceases to be just interestingly neurotic and actually gets locked up. Few Americans are aware that more than half a million men, women & children in the U.S. are in mental hospitals, mostly state institutions; another estimated 7,000,000, although at large, suffer from some kind of mental illness. The state institutions are desperately overcrowded and understaffed...
Most branches of technology have a backlog of unfinished business: basic principles worked out theoretically but not yet put to use. With jet propulsion, it is just the opposite. Practical jet engineers are already working close to the limits of theoretical knowledge. Ahead of them lies a blank area which the "longhairs" (theoretical men) have hardly begun to explore...
...elements of the final system are even designed as yet, but CAA is sure they will all be ready and in use by 1963. Total cost for theoretically near-total air safety...
Anne of the Thousand Days (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by the Playwrights' Company & Leland Hay ward) is yet another shot at history for Maxwell Anderson, and very likely another hit. From the turbulent story of Henry VIII's Anne Boleyn, Playwright Anderson has made a plump and gaudy stage piece, a thing of fierce desires, clashing wills, momentous acts. For love or lust of Anne, Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon, broke with Rome, opened an age of bloodshed; while the insolent and ambitious Anne would be Henry's queen or nothing at the start, still his queen...