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Fallible Device. Soon, in his one-man campaign to stamp out mental health, Horner seizes on his fellow teacher Joe Morgan, the energetic pragmatist. Morgan's wife Rennie is a kindred empty spirit. Says Horner of her: "She had peered deeply into herself and had found nothing." Rennie herself seems to agree. Of her life before she met Joe, she says: "I just dreamed along like a big blob of sleep." Now she regards her Joe as her personal God. After she discovers, in a grotesque episode of peeping tomfoolery, that her husband is not God after...
With his smartly clipped beard, fawn-colored trousers and "killing cravat," Littlefield was a kind of one-man giveaway show. As one admirer put it: "With money he was as free as water, and when he had no money was just as free with checks." All through the late 1860s, he had the money, shelled out as much as $241,000 at a session to get the legislation he and his associates wanted. Eventually, the Swepson-Littlefield interests floated their own bonds for railroad lines they never built. They snapped up land at distress sales, bought state-owned cotton...
Here the influence of Dean Bundy becomes strongest. His general idea has been that Harvard students are not working hard enough, and he has tried to devise ways of getting them to work harder and more efficiently. Of course, this has not been a one-man operation, and Bundy has worked through the Committee on Educational Policy, and spent much of this fall soliciting opinion from anyone who cared to give...
Horiuchi's arrival after years of obscurity (he still runs a small Seattle art shop for a living) was dramatic. At his first one-man show in May 1957 at Seattle's Zoe Dusanne Gallery, 22 of his 24 casein and tempera paintings on rice paper were snapped up by collectors. He was honored with a two-month-long exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum this year, will have a one-man show next fall in London. Seattle Museum President-Director Richard E. Fuller, asked to pick two favorite paintings from his area for Stanford University...
...lineup, young (21) William Stanley Mazeroski is Pittsburgh's second baseman; in action, he seems determined to prove himself a one-man ball club. He ranges after flies as widely as any outfielder, charges bunts with such breakneck energy that sore-backed First-Baseman Ted Kluszewski is left lumbering in his wake. He handles the double-play with the swift hands of a professional pickpocket. "He doesn't catch that ball," says one of his fans. "He just guides it toward first base...