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Landau is another. Not only did he prove the mainstay in the dash, but he also proved outstanding in the hurdles, a previously foreign and abhorrent event, when ace Joel Cohen reinjured his foot. The neophyte hurdler actually broke the indoor record in the Yale meet...
Last year's freshman outfit, now the mainstay of the varsity team, lost only one match in last year's contest, while the 1956-'57 version of the JV, much the same as last year's, took five of eight matches...
...this is not the only area in which union communications falter to the detriment of their long-range security and their acceptance as a mainstay of our free enterprise economy. At the same time that they repair their relations with their members, unions must do a more consistent job of demonstrating to the public that their goal is to go forward with the total community, and not to win gains at the expense of the community. Nowhere is this task more urgent than in the field of inflation control. Unfortunately, in the minds of many who have been worst...
...support the colony, almost silent partner and husband Harry Handy contributes $400 a month from his pay as a refinery manager for the Ohio Oil Co. But the real mainstay is Novelist Jones, who has expressed his whopping gratitude to Lowney by sinking $60,000 of his royalties in the colony and naming it a beneficiary in his will. Jones is on the last lap of a mammoth second novel (600,000 words written) about a love affair between a returned war veteran and a schoolteacher. He took eight years to write Eternity. "Today I can do in two years...
Died. Sir Frank Brangwyn, 89, British mural painter, longtime mainstay of Britain's Royal Academy, best known in the U.S. for his sepia-and-white, archacademic panels (New Frontiers) in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (R.C.A. Building lobby); in Ditchling, England. Because he always hated having his works "pawed over by a lot of strangers," Sir Frank gave away some half million dollars' worth to friends and fans. Others are pawed over in: the Canadian Parliament Building (Ottawa), London's Royal Exchange Building, the Cleveland Court House, Missouri's capitol building, the civic center in Swansea...