Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie is a self-confessed political "hybrid": he says he does not agree totally with either party. For that reason many a free-wheeling Democrat, many a Republican would like to see him President of the U. S. He was willing to accept the Republican nomination for the Presidency, but no one had figured out how to start him off.* With no party backing, he was a rootless flower in the political garden. Then, in Wall Street, an amateur political gardener announced he would do the necessary spadework...
...Barn Dance goes on the air at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.), is sponsored in pieces of 15 minutes and more by Alka-Seltzer, Keystone Steel & Wire Co. (fences), Murphy Products Co. (poultry and livestock feeds), Woodmen Accident Co. (insurance), Edward Funk & Sons (hybrid seed corn...
CITIZENS -Meyer Levin - Viking ($2.75). This 650page hybrid-part fact, part fiction-tells the story of the South Chicago "riot" on Memorial Day 1937, in which police killed ten pickets at the Republic Steel mill. Mob-size, its cast includes nine dead pickets (who get individual background stories); a young Jewish doctor who rapidly develops from bystander to alarmed social critic; a welter of organizers, stool pigeons, scabs, Senators, professors, company executives, reporters, cops, lawyers. "By using only actual, attested events as materials," says Author Levin, "the writer reduces the possibility of arriving at false conclusions." Far less objective than...
Outside a staid brick building on Manhattan's staid Murray Hill last week an Alexander Calder mobile* gyred and gimbled in the breeze. A frank hybrid, sporting a trio of abstract forms atop a classical column, it symbolized the hybrid show inside (at the headquarters of the Architectural League of New York). The show's title: "Versus." Its subject: the rival claims of traditional and modernist architecture...
...week many U. S. dog lovers were helping keep British hounds' noses keen, setters' coats shiny, poodles' hindquarters plucked. In Nashville, Tenn., Spur Oil Co.'s President Mason Houghland has begun regularly to hunt twelve and a half couples from the pack - famed for their hybrid Welsh traits of nose, voice, homeliness - of Master W. W. B. Scott of the Broadway Hunt in the Cotswolds. Five other Scott couples are with the Vic-Mead Hunt in Wilmington...