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Katharine J. McNear North Leeds...
Boghosian's assemblages may be read on many levels. Says Everett McNear, director of exhibitions for the Arts Club of Chicago, where a large show of Boghosian's sculpture is currently on display: "But when you look at the combination of wood, metal or whatever he has used, you feel as if they had grown that way. The result has an aura of tragedy and darkness and mystery that seems to come through...
...team is consistent, it is, unfortunately for Army, not consistently excellent. Graduation removed many key players last June, including captain Dick McNear, who was at one or two for the Cadets all season...
SANTA FE RAILROAD, longest in the U.S. (TIME, May 23), will expand again. For $9,963,000 the Santa Fe bought 73,800 shares (82%) of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad from the estate of George P. McNear Jr., whose death by a shotgun blast during a 1947 strike is still unsolved. With the 239-mile T.P. & W., which bridges central Illinois and ties in with the Santa Fe tracks at Lomax, Ill., the Santa Fe can bypass crowded Chicago switchyards with transcontinental freight, save up to eight hours on New York deliveries...
...last week T.P. & W.'s President John Russel Coulter, 52, who took over soon after McNear's death, reported some good news-about the best in the little railroad's unhappy career. From a $3,600,000 deficit four years ago, he had pulled T.P. & W.'s net up to $742,000 in 1951, paid out $825,000 in dividends and more than, $2,000,000 in income, inheritance and other taxes. At the news, McNear estate executors decided that their job was done. They voted to turn over the railroad to estate trustees...