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Despite many initial doubts, the wom en almost universally praised the commit tee after the first meeting. Says Mary Farrar, 41, president and founder of Systems Erectors, a structural steel contractor in Kansas City: "I had no women professional associations whatsoever. I simply didn't know there were other women out there at my level with the same managerial problems." Said Diane John son, 48, executive vice president of Houston's Central Pipe & Supply Co. (1981 sales: $82 million): "Most of us are not joiners. But we decided to risk it." Added Lane Nemeth, 35, president of Discovery...
...COLLECTED STORIES by Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 610 pages...
...FORTUNATE TRAVELLER by Derek Walcott; Farrar Straus Giroux; 99 pages; $11.95. Travel brochures sensibly omit certain details about the Caribbean. In his sixth book of poems, Derek Walcott corrects the sunny picture...
POPPA JOHN by Larry Woiwode Farrar Straus Giroux; 204 pages...
...slogans, demands a degree of bravery verging on folly. Nobody would accuse Tom Wolfe of lacking either. And so, in he goes, promising to make sense of the past few decades of American architectural taste with a short book, published this month, titled From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 143 pages, $10.95). Wolfe has talent as a stirrer, but his text bears out John Stuart Mill's remark that "the second-rate superior minds of a cultivated age .. . are usually in exaggerated opposition against its spirit...