Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's Findlay Galleries played host last week to the warm, simple and true pictures of the world's most distinguished woman painter, Dame Laura Knight. To a few, the pictures' heartfelt realism had that musty look of the faraway and long ago; visitors were hard put to assess them by contemporary-and so often geometric -standards. One critic noted that Dame Laura painted like a man. Said she in London when she heard of it, "What man?" Another called her a "popular painter," which roused her British ire the more: "Don't call me popular...
...trifle gnarled, the grand dame of British art still paints every day in her London "workshop." "It's not grand enough to call a studio," she insists, adding, rightly, that she is "not a great painter." But, she says, "it's not for lack of darned hard work. I never had more money than I needed. I am thankful to have known the facts and struggles of a common life." Humility shines through Dame Laura's art-and so does humanity...
...Hard-pressed U.S. railroads figure their featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though he does almost nothing. Each crewman draws a full day's pay for every 100 miles he covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president...
Management is hard pressed to combat such excesses. The Taft-Hartley Act rules out payments "for services which are not performed," but the Supreme Court has held featherbedding legal as long as workers perform any service-or just stay on the job. Moreover, management is often embarrassed by featherbedding on its own level. The American Institute of Management reported that 90% of U.S. companies suffer from featherbedding in the executive suite-managers who are kicked upstairs to show jobs, vice presidents (and their nephews) who have little to do after a company merges...
...most serious problem before the U.S. is not the cold war or inflation; it is the recovery of confidence in our own aims and democratic ideals." The challenging words came from the most articulate conservative in U.S. higher education: burly, hard-hitting Henry M. (for Merritt) Wriston, 70, for three decades one of the nation's foremost college presidents (Wisconsin's Lawrence College, 1925-37, and Brown University, 1937-55). Says Wriston...