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Dates: during 1950-1959
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former Princeton football player ('52) and writer: "They have missed a fundamental aspect of American life-work." Most of the U.S. artists are drawn to Rome because it is cheaper to live there. Their down-to-earth approach is reflected in their art: painting includes recognizable images, sculpture often mirrors the human form, prose and poetry tend to be lucid, coherent and direct. Few have qualms about accepting commercial commissions. Cracked one sculptor: "For a thousand dollars I'll do a head of grandma -guaranteed to look just like grandma!" Wives for Models. Typical of Rome...
...film's imagination of the battle is inevitably untrue to the event; the fighting scenes are almost too spectacularly realistic, and too often they transpire in the middle distance, surrounding the spectator but somehow never quite touching him. The moviegoer never really gets to know the fighting men, not even Hero Peck; but then on the other hand, the film does not sentimentalize or patronize its heroes...
...name and under eleven pen names, Wordsmith Creasey has published 366 novels, many of them whodunits, which have sold more than 18 million copies in the last 29 years. Creasey often turns out a 60,000-word novel in six days, has written as many as 15 a year. Asked to give an explanation for the rate of production, he once modestly replied: "I can type with only two fingers...
...Jets are often detoured around heavy-traffic areas before getting on course; many pilots have to make six changes of heading before getting their route-and then the altitude or route is often changed from the one originally cleared. American Airlines found that 30% of its flights in the first two months of operation were delayed more than ten minutes and 20% more than 20 minutes by such requirements. But the jets have had less trouble than anyone expected at the tricky job of integrating with prop-plane patterns. And even the routing problem may soon be solved: the Federal...
...Pittsburgh, where he spends a third of his working time at the operating headquarters, his home is a suite of rooms atop the Mellon-U.S. Steel Building; in Manhattan, his home is a Park Avenue apartment minutes away from the corporate policymaking headquarters. He often starts his day at 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. sitting quietly in his den or kitchen working out corporate problems on a yellow pad of legal paper, and his workday rarely ends before 7 or 8. His free time is generally spent with his wife in a sprawling Victorian house in Hawley...