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...completely automated hog, whose comfort is so catered to that he never moves a muscle except to belch, the reason why lean meat has all but vanished from bacon...
...Question of Country. A lean, grey eagle of a man, Hanson Baldwin at 56 still stands as ramrod stiff as when he graduated from Annapolis in 1924. He has been the Times's military analyst since 1937, won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1942 series on combat in the South Pacific that included the disclosure of the U.S. plight on Guadalcanal. Working his beat, Baldwin first came across Argus "some weeks" before the late August and early September tests, got together the outline of the project "without limitation...
Born in Switzerland, Jean Tinguely was an early rebel, was expelled from school after school and took up art in desperation at the age of 14. Nine years ago, he quit Switzerland in disgust ("They're suffocating in security and drowning in comfort"), settled in a lean-to shack in Paris' scruffy Impasse Ronsin. There, in a litter of old iron, cooky crumbs and whirling clockwork, Tinguely constructs his "abstractions," erratically watched over by his wife Eva. Says her husband: "She paints the kind of things Edgar Allan Poe would have, if he'd been able...
...despite the good intentions of the Admissions Committee, its selections are limited by the choices of the applicants. In most cases those students who can overcome the prejudice against Harvard that exists strongly around the U.S., come from backgrounds which lean toward or admire the East; and those who are equipped to handle the academic requirements of Harvard usually possess a sophistication which allows them to be easily assimilated into the predominating intellectual atmosphere. The rarity of extreme local accents at Harvard suggests a group of students who are already conscious of and are trying to suppress their regionality. They...
...latest in a series of exposés on congressional nepotism, payroll high jinks and money-hungry Congressmen that have boiled out of Capitol Hill in the past two months. And the man behind the Harmon story was the newsman behind the entire series: Scripps-Howard's lean, bow-tied Vance Henry Trimble, 45, a shirtsleeve reporter who got his beats by dogged digging in a city where newsmen often settle for the mimeographed handout and the formal press conference...