Word: babcock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GREAT part of modern life is lived by artificial light, and yet no major painter has devoted himself to this glittering and multi-hued area until now. This week Manhattan's Babcock Galleries put on show the work of Chicago's Richard Florsheim, the first artist to attempt an all-out embrace of the world of electrical, chemical and neon fires. With painters everywhere attempting to reestablish contact, however ephemeral, with nature, Florsheim points out that man-made lights are also part of nature. The nighttime view from an airplane or a train can take...
...Frederic Babcock, editor of the Chicago Tribune's Magazine of Books, proclaimed: "Lolita is pornography, and we do not plan to review it." Other abstainers: the Christian Science Monitor and the Baltimore Sunpapers. But most publications did brace themselves to review the book, and attacks were vehement. The Providence Journal was tempted, but resisted: "After wading along with a kind of fascinated horror through 140,000 words, most readers will probably become bored . . . at times downright sickened . . ." The New York World Telegram's Leslie Hanscom fumed that "there were moments . . . when my whole instinct was to land...
ATOM POWER PLANT for first nuclear-powered merchant ship will be built by Babcock & Wilcox Co. To get AEC contract, the company beat out General Electric, Westinghouse and others. Reactor will be advanced model of thermal type used by atom submarine Nautilus...
...Henry H. Babcock, who handles the Business School, got his M.D. degree in 1939, and worked at Butler Hospital in Providence rising to Superintendant before coming to the University a year...
...merger would give Farm Journal-Country Gentleman "approximately 51% of the total net paid circulation among the six largest competitors in the farm magazine field"-though only 24% of total farm magazine circulation-thus "lessen competition" and "tend to create a monopoly." The news surprised Farm Journal President Richard Babcock, who said that the FTC made a routine investigation but gave no indication that anything was wrong. The merger will go ahead. Said Babcock: "We are confident . . . that we have not violated the Clayton...