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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cosmo Campoli, 37, a former factory worker, sculpts creatures swollen almost out of recognition. His sculptures of women in the act of giving birth are brutally explicit; his Prodigal Son is a head bursting with dim regrets. "I want my sculpture to exist-really exist," he once wrote. "I want it to holler when it's being threatened by neutral surroundings." His wife, winsome Kathryn Carloye, does small terra-cotta bas-reliefs consisting of ranks of tiny skulls, with things growing from them. She has to keep them small, she says, because her two small children have...
...most popular of the moderns, Kiyoshi Saito, 52, has achieved a success almost worthy of the top Ukiyo-e artists. In 1955 he exhibited 67 of his pieces in the U.S., in a grand gesture gave them all to the University of Michigan. In debt, like most of his contemporaries, to Western influence and a Western audience, Saito lately visited ancient Kyoto to recapture special Japanese qualities he feels his works lack, ruefully muses: "We have lost our Japanese origins. I keep on going to Kyoto to try to rediscover them." But to a Western eye, his origins are unmistakable...
...billion; consumer durable goods alone account for $44 billion. By next spring, consumer buying is expected to top $325 billion annually-as much as the total gross national product a decade ago. To spur the rise, personal income, up $20.6 billion in the past year, is expected to jump almost $20 billion in the next twelve months...
Sleek, solid-colored and almost chromeless, the new cars held few surprises-but some bonuses-for Mercedes fans. The lower-priced 180 models ($3,300 to $3,567 in New York) and the luxurious 300 SL Roadster ($10,978) were basically unchanged. But Mercedes' new 220 series of six-cylinder sedans, the most popular in the line, appeared in a sleeker new version, with a redesigned engine that boosts power output to a top of 134 h.p. The medium-priced 220 ($4,767 with fuel injection) has a somewhat lower, slightly streamlined body that keeps the unmistakable Mercedes look...
Burns belongs to a growing group of U.S. managers who got their training in an almost unexcelled school of versatility: the management-consultant firm. Born in Watertown, Mass., he has made a career of versatility. He swung a pick in a highway gang, earned a doctorate in metallurgy at Harvard ('34), taught in universities (Harvard, Lehigh) before joining Republic Steel as a laborer (wages: 59? an hour). In 1941, having moved up to become boss of Republic's wiremaking division at $12,000 a year, he turned down an offer of twice that and accepted the bid that...