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Hell Is a City. Man has been moving to the suburbs ever since he invented the urbs. "Rus mihi dulce sub urbe est," sang the Roman epigrammatist Martial in the ist century A.D. "To me, the country on the outskirts of the city is sweet." And small wonder, for the towns and walled cities of Europe, from ancient times through the Middle Ages and beyond, were airless, fetid places choking with humanity. The big crisis of the cities came with the Industrial Revolution. In England lonely voices cried out against the grime and stench of the cities. "Hell...
...such companies as Chrysler and American Motors have stopped losing money on company cafeterias. Machine makers are racing to perfect a complete in-plant feeding system for such operating companies as ABC Vending Corp. (1959 sales: $66 million) and Los Angeles' fast-growing Automatic Retailers Co. of America (est. 1960 sales: $35 million). ABC Vending, which began selling popcorn and candy in Manhattan movie houses, now has concessions in more than 2,750 theaters and 420 drive-in movies. It has taken advantage of the leisure-time boom, moved vending machines into sports arenas, bowling alleys and stock...
...Fleischman divides his working day among half a dozen enterprises, from carpet stores to hotels to Broadway productions, devotes his evenings and weekends to art. One of his proudest acquisitions is a painting by Ryder, the great est romantic of them all - a self-portrait painted about the age of 43. Parts of his collection have been shown in 15 countries, and Fleischman himself generally goes along to lecture. In his native Detroit, he is a sparkplug of Archives of American Art, an institution set up to gather artists' letters, recorded inter views and other research material. "Outside...
...owners adjourned at 6:45 p.m. (EST) for a two-hour dinner break with Leahy leading acting commissioner Austin H. Gunsel 8-3. One vote was cast for Paul Schissler, special events director of the Los Angeles Times. It takes nine votes to elect a $50,000-a-year successor to the late Bert Bell as NFL head...
...especially proud of the 2,000 subscribers, such as the Hoosier farmer, who take the magazine because they like to read Latin, not because they have to. He tries to make each issue lively rather than pedantic. The jokes tend to be lame: Primus: "Noah Webster optime Anglice locutus est." Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."* But the fiction sometimes has its excitement, e.g., a recent story entitled Cadaver Absens (The Missing Corpse). Although many prospective advertisers (books, crayons, even liquor) have expressed interest, Warsley has held to a no-advertising policy; he thinks that...