Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deadeye. In Maiden, Mass., George Ross, tangled in a conveyor belt, chucked tin cans at a wall switch, hit it, shut off the power, saved his life...
...people tried their best to sing Vienna's lustige Lieder (jolly songs), but it was not easy. A current favorite revival was "In the Prater the trees bloom again," but few Viennese could sing it without remembering that their Prater amusement park was a mass of charred plaster and twisted steel...
Whoever ruled faced real problems. Bolivia's once-rich tin mines now produced only medium-grade ores. The mass of the coca-chewing Indian population was illiterate, and Bolivia's leaders had so far shown neither the vision nor energy to transform them into efficient producers and prospective consumers. One thin ray of hope: a U.S.-financed highway that would join the dry, food-scarce plateau with the verdant eastern plains, perhaps integrate the country's economy...
Something for the Housewife. Not on exhibition at Minneapolis, but already in production, is Wright's first venture in mass-produced fine china. It is ruthlessly free from china's historic fragility and flossiness. Says he: "China lovers are going to be scandalized at the use of the material." Saucers and plates are fiat and thick, the rims slightly raised and rounded to cut down chipping. Grips depressed into the china eliminate most handles, require less table and shelf space...
...historian. But for him, many an early Renaissance master would be unknown today, many a masterpiece unattributed. Last week, a 300-page abridgement of Vasari's Lives (edited by Betty Burroughs; Simon & Schuster; $3.75) let laymen in on some brisk reading that had previously been buried in a mass of scholarly detail. The new Lives were almost as easy going as a gossip column, and for much the same reason. Sample...