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Arthur Koestler's biting description of 20th-century labor leaders-"men with iron wills and wooden heads"-seemed to be inaccurate. At a great Labor conference in Paris last week the iron was highly pliable, the wood intricately grained. Men who claimed to represent 75,000,000 of the...
¶ Packers are buying the cheaper-and lighter weight-grass-fed cattle instead of corn-fed cattle. Reason: because the prices of corn and range cattle are high, fattened cattle are too expensive. Midwest feed-lot operators charged that this resulted in a senseless waste of meat. Cattle moving from...
Waves. The widening use of high-intensity sound waves (some high-sounding, some inaudible) was suggested by the University of Minnesota's Professor Karl Sollner. These waves, which can disperse or collect gaseous, liquid or solid particles, are now used to clear the air of fog and smoke, kill...
Died. Marsden Hartley, 66, American-grained postimpressionist painter; of a heart ailment ; in Ellsworth, Me.
Rockwell's popularity is not hard to fathom. His pictures are never self-sufficient as painting; they nearly always tell a story. Moreover, he constantly achieves, with no sacrifice of conscientious sincerity, that compromise between a love of realism and the tendency to idealize which is one of the...