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...open hearths and Bessemer converters into the research laboratory. At novel's end, Peter leaves the steel industry, prematurely invents an automatic record-changer and is about to take a flyer in the manufacturing end of the newly born radio industry. Peter Domanig promises to be a Lanny Budd-of-all-trades, and Author White certainly does not intend to cramp his style. He has already announced two forthcoming sequels, Brass and Gold...
...South Station that draws some $200 million yearly in various businesses and fat contracts for the New Haven to haul the goods. At a cost of $70 million, the New Haven has been completely dieselized and electrified, now has some 1,300 new units, including 40 self-propelled Budd cars (the largest U.S. fleet), 362 new diesel-electric locomotives. Piggyback cars for carrying trucks have been increased until they produce $2,000,000 in revenue each year (100 more, plus 115 air-conditioned passenger cars are on order for 1954), and Dumaine has torn up 340 miles of track...
Productions have been known to survive lukewarm reviews (e.g., Wish You Were Here, Kind Sir, Kismet) and fail despite good reviews (Billy Budd, Take a Giant Step), but they are the exception rather than the rule. Some plays, which cost as much as $150,000 to bring to Broadway, have closed within a week because of bad reviews. When reviews are mixed, the play is on its own, but sometimes word-of-mouth and "names" can turn it into a hit such as Cole Porter...
Retired President Britton Budd of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois was invited to last week's party, too. He could remember helping Bishop Sheil found the organization that is his chief monument: the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.). As a young priest, Father Sheil served part-time as a chaplain at the Cook County jail. He walked many a doomed man to the execution chamber, and once a "mad-dog killer" said to him near the end: "Father, why do they wait until now before they start to care?" Later, when Father Sheil was consecrated a bishop...
With his own inheritance from his father and $10,000 from Utility Man Budd, Sheil set out to lure off the streets young potential gangsters-white and Negro, Protestant, Catholic and Jew-with a social and athletic program that kept moralizing to a minimum. Boxing was the major attraction. When some high-minded people clucked at the stress on boxing, Bishop Sheil's reply was: "Show me how you can inspire boys away from the brothels and saloons with a checker tournament and I'll put on the biggest checker tournament you ever...