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Crash! The uncertain hamlet of Dogpatch is equipped with standard but movable props, all of them hazardous in the extreme. One of the oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with...
...least impressive of the three, not nearly so good as Loving, his story of life above and below stairs in an Irish castle (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949), or Nothing, his comedy of postwar London manners (TIME, March 27). But it still has many moments of typical fun contrived by Industrialist (brewery equipment) Henry Yorke, who pen-names himself Henry Green, keeps his literary identity shrouded by resolutely refusing his face to the camera...
...quiet, almost icily cool man with a craggy bald head and an elegant drawing-room slouch, Lovett had long since proved to be as effective with a diplomat or a Congressman as he was with a general or an industrialist. In his new job he could be expected to tighten still further the liaison between State and Defense which had already improved perceptibly since the departure of Louis Johnson...
Arizona-born Lew Douglas had brought more than the usual diplomatic attributes to his job. When he took the post 3½-years ago at the prayerful request of George Marshall, he already had behind him a solid and varied career. He had been a Congressman, an industrialist, Director of the Budget (he quit because he disagreed with Roosevelt's ideas of New Dealing spending), the head of McGill University, Lend-Lease expediter, war shipping administrator and the president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. He arrived in London at a time when the British loan...
Until two years ago, New York was the only state without a state university.* Then a commission headed by retired Industrialist Owen D. Young (General Electric) recommended that New York start one. The state legislature agreed, approved the blueprint of a $200 million general plan. The first step: administrative union for a group of 29 scattered schools of all sorts for which New York was already paying the bills, including teachers' colleges, technical institutes, schools of forestry and industrial relations. To distinguish it from privately administered and financed New York University (N.Y.U.), the new omnibus outfit was named...