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...chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel Co. Its task, as stated by Eisenhower: "To find acceptable ways and means of widening and deepening the channels of economic intercourse between ourselves and our partners in the free world." The 17 members include, however, some of Congress' most hard-bitten protectionists, men who have shown great interest in narrowing trade channels...
...buying Kingan, Slotkin had bitten off a big chunk of troubles. But last week Slotkin was sure that, by such economies as combining the two firms' sales forces, he would soon have Kingan on a paying basis. Eventually, he estimates, the merger should mean a $500 million annual gross for Hygrade. Exuberant over this gratifying prospect, and incidentally to persuade Kingan minority stockholders to exchange their shares, Slotkin last week declared a 100% stock dividend for his Hygrade stockholders...
...Chapin got fed up with Greenwich Village and outgrew his own imitations of Cezanne. He found a $4-a-month log cabin in northern New Jersey, holed in there for five decisive years. Chapin emerged from the hills with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small part...
Died. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 70, lean, hard-bitten hero of Bataan and Corregidor during the darkest days of the war in the Pacific; of a stroke; in San Antonio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
With this misinformation, off to the club went Wright, where he located his man (whose name was Smith), picked up the last details of the story and wired the copy to Beshoar. Later the club's boss, Raymond I. Smith, a hard-bitten New Englander with a sharp eye for a fact, described the story (TIME, May 11) as "the only really accurate piece ever written about the place...