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...last week, in Graflex's annual $10,000 contest, Charles Dawson's portrait of Elizabeth, for United Press, came in third ($200). Top honors went to a picture of a more universal and more timeless theme-a soldier coming home from the wars (see cut). James N. Keen of the Louisville Courier-Journal won the $500 first prize for his shot of Captain Darrell J. Putnam, after 18 months in Korea, greeting his wife and the daughter he had never seen. In second place ($300): another Courier-Journal photo (by Lucie Becker), of a church picnic...
...27th anniversary of the founding of Wooster School in Danbury, Conn., capital has been pouring into the South. Even so, said Ayers, "the South is still an undeveloped region." Youth, said he, would discover, as Northern industry had, that in the South "competition is not so keen as it is in other regions," and "condiditions are so much better and success much easier...
This week's Mille Miglia drew a record 573 entries, and a big reason was the increasingly keen commercial competition among the sports-car makers of Germany, France, Italy and England. With production booming, the makers feel that the postwar sellers' market is over, that from now on they will have to sell their cars strictly on performance. They saw the Mille Miglia as a public proving ground...
...three-bedroom houses for $3,500 ($300 down, $30 a month). Only retired folk with pensions of not less than $135 or more than $250 a month are eligible to buy. Kem wants "spry, imaginative folks, who don't feel they are about to die, but rather are keen about the pioneering prospects of this deal...
...Bennett rarely comes to full life except when Pound is quoting from his subject's own prolific notes and letters. But Pound has done a satisfying job of culling the word-master's words, and the result is a picture of a skillful stylist and keen observer who kept his artistic standards high, even when turning words into gold at the rate of $10,000 a month...