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...Last Hunt (MGM) is a bloodstained western that demonstrates two ways to shoot buffalo: 1) slaveringly, as villainous Hunter Robert Taylor does it, or 2) mincingly, like noble-souled Hunter...
Burchfield discovered the scenes that first made him famous in the back streets and industrial areas of Buffalo, where he took a job as a wallpaper designer, worked on art in his spare hours. By the time he decided to devote himself full time to his art, his realistic scenes of grim train yards, black iron drawbridges, rows of workers' unpainted houses had put him in the forefront of the American Scene painters of the 1930s. But as one critic quipped, Burchfield, with his prevailing gloomy mood (see cut above), seemed too often like Painter Edward Hopper...
When U.S. children attend grammar school, they learn from their history textbooks that Americans have squandered their natural resources by slaughtering buffalo, raping forests, polluting streams, and plowing up soil-holding grasslands. As the youngsters grow old enough to read Government news releases in the papers, they are reassured that under scientific Government management, our countrymen are developing the skill of harvesting, rather than mining, American wildlife, timber, and land. Whatever its shortcomings in practice, most citizens come to believe that through planned conservation we may have our resources and reap them...
...employees from agricultural areas. It could be Los Angeles, which added as many factory workers in the past five years (277,400) as in the previous 21. Or even New England, which put its brains to work and found new research and electronics industries after textiles slumped. Or Buffalo. Cleveland or Toledo, little Detroits all, and all building in anticipation of the opening of the Lake Erie portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...effort to solve its awesome shortage of highways, New York state last week opened a new, three-mile bridge across the Hudson River's Tappan Zee, 18 miles north of Manhattan, bringing near to completion the longest single express highway in the world, the 427-mile, $1 billion Buffalo-to-Manhattan thruway. Even the shortage of highways may some day be solved, impossible as that may seem...