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Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...
...lithographs and etchings into a big heap of rejections, a little heap of selections. His little heap appeared last week as a book* containing 100 (10 in. by 13 in.) black & white prints by such top-flight U. S. artists as Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, Boardman Robinson, John Sloan, Grant Wood, for the first time brought together the most significant black-&-whites by outstanding U. S. artists in a handy, inexpensive form. Thoughtfully, the publishers perforated the binding edge of all the prints so they may be taken out for framing...
...requested Chrysler Corp. to penalize four of 60 Plymouth body handlers who sat down for higher wages. Temporarily out were 21,900 others who could not work when the flow of auto bodies halted. In Washington John Lewis grabbed a long-distance telephone and bawled out Executive Boardman Leo Lamotte, whom Mr. Lewis blamed for the trouble. Boss Lewis was concerned because he had just had C. I. O. avow that it would religiously observe its contracts...
...week, the National Skeet Shooting Association held its fourth annual championship tournament. As usual, the headliners were not much older than the sport itself. Of the seven amateur champions determined during the week, only one was over 21. Youngest was Augusta's 12-year-old Clayton P. ("Red") Boardman Jr., freckles champion of Georgia, who. hobbling around on crutches (because of a foot infection that hospitalized him for six months), broke 95 out of 100 targets to retain the sub-junior title he won last year...
Donald Wakefield Smith, 38 and the Board "baby," is a roly-poly, volatile, sharp-tongued onetime Philadelphia lawyer who would rather not be reminded that he looks like Herbert Hoover when he smiles. Boardman Smith knows how workers feel because his father was once a steel-worker and he himself worked in the mills to earn his way through Coraopolis, Pa. high school. As a lawyer, he specialized in labor and immigration cases...