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During the adjustment after the end of the Korean war, a dip in employment brought a chorus of doom and gloom. But never before has the U.S. gone through a postwar economic adjustment with so little disturbance. The number of U.S. residents now gainfully employed (62,703,000) is the highest ever for this season of the year. Unemployment (2,489,000) is a regional rather than a national problem, and is centered largely in chronically sick industries, e.g., textiles and coal...
Passers-by stop under a glittering Gold Coast marquee that spells out "Metropole Cafe," peer into the gloom to see where all the noise is coming from. What they see looks like an alley lined with mirrors. On one side is a 110-ft.-long bar, on the other a cluster of dime-size tables. Behind the bar, on a narrow, chest-high platform, is a line of musicians, cash registers at their toes and microphones at their shoulders. The Metropole, it turns out, is one of the sturdiest Northern outposts of an obsolescent brand of music: Dixieland jazz...
...stronger about this point was Indiana's Senator Capehart, who fought bitterly with Fulbright during the hearings. Filing a minority report along with three other Republican Senators (Ohio's Bricker, Utah's Bennett and Maryland's Beall), Capehart accused the Democrats of bringing forth a gloom-and-doom report, aimed at damaging the Republican Administration. The real reasons for the rise in stock prices, wrote Capehart, were not "iniquitous speculation," but the higher rates of production, and the stability that the Eisenhower Administration has brought about...
Crimson intramural champions dispelled some of the wide-spread gloom recently pervading in varsity ranks by annexing the Harkness Trophy awarded annually for House-College competition against Yale...
...Whitney's show underlined a curious gloom in U.S. sculptors today. Mostly they weld metal figures of a tormented yet unsympathetic sort. Forbiddingly invested with knobs, prickles and outright spikes, the figures imprison a bit of free air and defy anyone to invade it. David Hare's sculptures were a happy exception to the grim parade. Long dour as the rest, Hare has now invented a new and carefree impressionism. His Sunrise creates an effect of light and loftiness out of a rock, some steel bars and cut bronze sheets tinted with gold. Another exception was Richard Lippold...