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Died. Walter Geist, 56, president since 1942 of Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (farm tractors and harvesters, generators, road graders, sawmill and flour-mill machinery); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Son of Norwegian immigrants, Geist quit, school at 15 to go to work as an Allis-Chalmers errand boy. In 1949 he ran a $351 million business...
...solitary coffee amidst the potted palms. "It is there," he says, "that I make my fantasies for my work." He often puts fish in his pictures "because I like fish, both to eat and to look at. Also they are symbols." What do they symbolize? "Geist-spirit," Beckmann replies positively. "But the man who looks at my pictures must figure them out for himself...
Last week, without apology or explanation, Keyholer Winchell printed another item: "License plate NYC i is owned by I. Geist (Manhattan Blouse Manufacturer Irving Geist). The Mayor uses a tag with many numbers. NYC i was in front of Tiffany's recently, which explains why a tipster thought His Honor was on a doodad spending spree...
...Bystanders," a short story by James McGovern, is a carefully underwritten treatment of the Negro Problem. Where McGovern succeeds, Stanley Geist, in Part Two of "Lichfield, Pacific Style," fails. McGovern's simple story of injustice and violence is handled without fanfare. Geist's tedious account of Army prison conditions in the South Pacific vacillates between reportorial observation and personal history--a report done in the spirit, if not in the manner of the "New Yorker...
...Advocate's poetry: T. S. Eliot always seems to be lurking somewhere between the lines. The two non-fictional articles are examples of just what the magazine should keep doing. They are unique, not available to the national magazines. The long account of Kangaroo Island, by Stanley Geist, describes this Pacific Lichfield calmly and contemplatively. Luckily, he avoided merely giving the reader a sadistic thrill, and instead analyzes the sociological reasons for the brutality, though sometimes as the price of being dull...