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Lockless Canal. De Lesseps was a doer in private as well as public life. He married twice and fathered 17 children (the last when he was 80). At the age of 74 he eagerly met the challenge of Panama, and the result was a fiasco. Age had bred in him not mellowness but arrogance. Yellow fever, corruption and his own stubbornness (he insisted on building a canal without locks despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage...
...your shield or on it." In the jungle retreat of Bataan, it became necessary to resist in a seemingly lost cause. On the frostbitten ridges of Korea, it became necessary to carry a stalemate to its logical inconclusion. In these tragic endurance contests, new kinds of American courage were bred, and that courage is celebrated in these two remarkable, non-fiction accounts by first-time authors. Give Us This Day, by Army Private Stewart, is the more powerful and moving. The Last Parallel, by Marine Sergeant Russ, is more cocky and exuberant; neither is for the reader who is queasy...
...Search of Self. Hopper's search for self has been long, arduous and undeviating. It began in the town of Nyack, N.Y.. up the Hudson River from Manhattan. There he was a bookish, gawky, well-bred boy-the son of a scholarly and unbusinesslike merchant-who built his own sailboat at the age of twelve. Five years later he enrolled in Robert Henri's art school on Manhattan's 57th Street. Henri was the presiding genius of an American art movement sneeringly dubbed the "Ash Can School." Instead of the vapid, idealistic studio pictures then...
Dozier is a senior member of a group of Texas painters who have evolved what Manhattan's Whitney Museum Associate Director Lloyd Goodrich calls "abstract art based on the character of Texas landscape." Texas born and bred, Dozier got his start doing PWAP murals, then put in seven years of study under Boardman Robinson at Colorado Springs' Fine Arts Center: "I must have done 6,000 sketches of mining towns, rocks and the human figure...
...stock, and with it, Associated's eight hotels. Others soon followed as Oberoi improved his hotels. He put modern toilet facilities in every room, central heating and air conditioning into the Grand Hotel in Calcutta and the Imperial in New Delhi, Swiss, German and French managers-bone-bred hoteliers-into most of his hotels. By Indian standards his hotels are excellent, but by U.S. standards they lag, and Oberoi knows it, hopes the prospective tie to Pan Am's Intercontinental will help...