Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full of foreboding, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther* stepped before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report in Washington last week to talk about the future. As far as Reuther could see, the horizon was cloudy-and the blackest clouds of all bore the label "automation." Citing the example of an...
New World Enterprise. To Britain, Baker Weston is a unique example of new world enterprise returning to replenish the home country. His pride in his own success makes him regard other British businessmen a bit scornfully. Says he: "The men at the top in this country don't work...
The depression of 1835-36 drove the Whitmans out to Hempstead, Long Island, and Walt took a country teaching post. The hours were hard, the pay small ($35 to $40 for a three-month term). Grown to a husky six-footer, Whitman showed no interest in girls, but he did...
Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, where the local toughs forced him to portray favorite athletes on the pavement with chalk. Little Ben learned to draw very well indeed. He also developed a temper. It was the perfect schooling for a "proletarian-school" painter. Shahn grew up to startle...
Died. Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning (for Strange Holiness in 1936) Maine poet, novelist (Lost Paradise, Red Sky in the Morning), regional historian (Kennebec: Cradle of Americans), lecturer and professor of English at Maine's Bowdoin College: of a heart attack; in Portland, Me. Raised on a...