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...Ernest Sterling Marsh, 54, was elected president of the century-old Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., longest U.S. railroad (13,076 miles) and fourth largest in operating revenue ($590 million in 1956), succeeding Fred G. Gurley, 68, Santa Fe president since 1944, who becomes board chairman. Marsh left the eleventh grade in 1918 to join the Santa Fe as a clerk in Clovis, N. Mex., went to Chicago as chief clerk in the president's office in 1942. Two years later, he was made assistant to the president, and in 1948 became vice president in charge of finance...
Died. Mateel Howe Farnham, 73, novelist (Marsh Fire, Wild Beauty, Lost Laughter, The Tollivers) and prolific short-story writer for women's magazines; in Norwalk, Conn. Daughter of the late Author-Editor-Philosopher Edgar Watson (Ed) Howe, Author Farnham won a $10,000 prize for her first novel, Rebellion (1927), describing a girl's breakaway from a tyrannical father, once (1934) wrote TIME: "I did write a novel about a rebellious daughter and an old-fashioned father, but not about this daughter or my own father...
...watercolors and drawings Greenman has command of a definite style. It seemed to me however that she strives too much for a decorative effect. There is something about her crowd figures reminiscent of Reginald Marsh, without his strength or skill. Anne Lord's pen and ink drawings of horses would be better done on white paper. Though the draughtsmanship is wiry and supple. Uninteresting and imprecise line, undermines the efforts of Judy Kuznets to create an effect with watercolor wash over ink. I found her Accordion Player and Mother and Child shapeless to my imagination. The idea, however...
...shrinking spaces between the nation's cities, such adaptable species of wildlife as the white-tailed deer and the meadow lark manage to thrive and multiply. Not so the whooping crane, tallest (5 ft.) of North American birds. A stately, aloof marsh dweller with white plumage, black wing tips, a cap of bare red skin atop its head and a trumpetlike cry that can be heard two miles away, the whooping crane (Grus Americana) has become for U.S. conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers a symbol of their fight to save rare species from extinction...
...Bellboys' triumph was a team effort, as five players joined in the scoring; Ed Harding had two; and Sam Wolcott, Dave Dearborn, Bill Henry and Norman Marsh scored one apiece...