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Died. Colonel François de la Rocque, 53, founder and fiihrer of the fascistic Croix de Feu party which periodically harassed French governments of the '30s; after an operation; in Paris. He inveighed against "rotten parliamentarian-ism," boldly announced his intention to "seize power," but opposed the Nazis...
Roughneck in Paris. According to Benton, Paris had meant merely "a girl friend to take care of you and run you-a lot of talk and an escape into a world of pretense and theory." Two-fisted Tom had "wallowed in every cockeyed ism that came along, and it took me ten years to get all that modernist dirt out of my system. I was merely a roughneck with a talent for fighting, perhaps, but not for painting." His muscle-bound expressionist Three Figures, which the Whitney exhibited without comment, proved his words...
...Attila or Genghis Khan destined to destroy it. Yet in his private life he always remained a drab petty bourgeois, who chose drab Eva Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...
Quickie strikes abound, and an Army officer recently complained that the holidaying Koreans had thought up a Fifth Freedom - freedom from work. Absentee ism can easily be overcome, but raw materials must come from the north (again, the 38th parallel...
...Problems. All of this, from turkeys to bonuses, is simply the Grumman way of getting the greatest production in the shortest time. As a result, neither absentee ism nor lack of manpower, the plagues of other war plants, have been a Grumman problem. Turnover, for all causes, including the draft, has been a small 2.3% so far this year, about half of the aircraft industry's average. Swirbul is fond of saying: "We're cold-blooded about all this, simply go out in the plant and tell the boys: you work a little harder and the company will...