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Just finished reading your reasonable, rational article on "that population explosion" [Jan. 11]. What a refreshing bit of positive reporting after the many laments of the prophets of gloom currently heard throughout the land...
...sister overtakes him at odd moments, and, as one character says in admiration, "every couple of years Kintyre spends a few days in hell." But when a young graduate student is tortured and killed just before publishing a thesis on witches in 14th century Italy, Kintyre shakes his gloom and sniffs after the killers. Author Anderson creates a spooky San Francisco cityscape and it is to his credit that.he does not solve all of Kintyre's problems. The amateur eye gets the evil ones and the girl, but his psychosis is still blooming...
...years out of college to be made president of General Motors, because you know he wouldn't have the mature experience. Yet we expect this of painters. But it is much harder to be a good painter than president of General Motors.'' Slowly, out of the gloom in Florsheim's studio, more positive and colorful pictures began emerging. "I don't think most artists go through a blinding transformation; it's like a shingled roof with no start and no finish," he explains. "But I've gone farther in the past few years...
...realize it." Avery had hobbled the entire firm with his one man rule (he had to okay every expenditure over $100), and knocked employee morale to the bottom. Net sales dropped from $1.1 billion in 1950 to $999 million in 1954. Barr set out to sweep out gloom, bring on a boom...
...gloom of last week's loss to Cornell has abated, and an angry, vengeful Crimson eleven will work off its rage against underdog Columbia this afternoon at Soldiers Field. In its best physical shape of the fall and looking for its first Ivy win, the Crimson is a twelve-point favorite to come...