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Heartland of U.P.W.A. is Chicago's smoky, sprawling, brawling "back-of-the-yards" district. There, in ugly tenements filled with the odors of decay and burning hair, some 100,000 of the meatworkers live. Two forces unite them: the packinghouses, and the Catholic Church...
...biggest producer in the Orient, scuttled this hope. After jeeping through the Malay peninsula, TIME Correspondent John Luter reported: no hidden stocks of tin, and no mine would operate for months to come. The Japs had looted the bulk of the engineering tools, flooded the mines, left destruction and decay behind them. The plight of the tin mines was far worse than that of the rubber plantations, which had been comparatively unharmed...
...Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially sardonic novel, A Handful of Dust (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934), a satire on aimless decay and aimless viciousness in the patriciate. Later came Put Out More Flags, a hilariously mordant comedy about Britain's Wrorld War II bureaucrats and racketeers...
Other prizes ranged from typical Max Weber still life, Colonial Table (second prize) to one of Ivan LeLorraine Albright's painfully detailed studies of decay. Where-Fore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, an also-ran. Sure eye-catchers were two robust paintings of fishermen -Jon Corbino's moody, swirling Fog, which caught a moment of mist-bound helplessness at sea, and Zolton Sepeshy's briny fifth prize, Fisherman's Morning, full of the smells of a Lake Michigan fish pier...
Playwrights Williams (The Glass Menagerie) and Windham are soapboxing for Life, Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves...