Word: bays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rear, General Lee to the rear"; Phil Sheridan, little god of war, red-faced and raging beneath his fork-tailed battle flag along the rutted road to Appomattox: "Now smash 'em, I tell you, smash 'em"; Farragut, fabulous admiral, lashed to the mast in Mobile Bay: "Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead." Back of the epic lines echo the epic songs: Battle Hymn of the Republic, Maryland, My Maryland, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Dixie, Marching Through Georgia, Tenting Tonight, and, most popular of all, a tender Victorian love song called Lorena...
There are many such echoes, because the Civil War was a destiny-sized war-2,300,000 Union men v. about 1,000,000 Confederates-crackling like a flaming canebrake from New Mexico to Chesapeake Bay. It was a costly war-about 500,000 men dead in both armies. It was also total war, the New World's first. "If the people raise a howl," red-bearded William Tecumseh Sherman is rasping, "I will answer that war is war and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace . . . they must stop...
Essentially a landscape painter, Kienbusch finds that reworking nature and translating it into his own terms is the only way to get at its inner meaning and intensity. Says he: "I betray nature if I copy." In the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' Across Penobscot Bay (opposite) he shows "what it feels like on a beautiful day to look from an island across the bay. What interested me was that the space of the trees in the foreground seems to embrace the space of the bay." The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan...
...Toronto Street. While Canada's ore-rich economy has surged irrepressibly ahead since World War II, the boom might have bypassed Bay Street if President Trebilcock had never ventured, via the World, into a financial career. After working up to business editor, he quit to study mining law, later hung his shingle over a tent at Red Lake camp in Ontario's 1925 gold rush. On his return to Toronto, Trebilcock was appointed counsel to the old Standard Stock and Mining Exchange, Canada's key mining market; in 1934 he worked out a merger with its rival...
Fortnight ago, Trebilcock persuaded the board of governors to buy a site (price: $1,750,000) on which to build a new exchange, with half again as much trading space as the New York Exchange. Though brokers grumbled at the prospect of shifting from Bay Street to Toronto Street, three blocks away, they were already boasting that the new building would be the world's most efficient stock exchange...