Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Horace Pippin, 57, exporter, self-taught, a top U.S. Negro painter, whose works hang in nine major museums, many a private collection; of a stroke; in West Chester, Pa. Because a bullet wound paralyzed his right arm in World War I, Pippin had to paint his quaint, rugged primitives by supporting his right hand with his left, did it well enough to be compared favorably with famed primitive painters Douanier Rousseau and John Kane...
PRESTON SCHOYER Pittsburgh, Pa...
Cleaned Up. In McKeesport, Pa., OPAdministrator Kenneth Whitaker upheld a customer's claim that a dry-cleaning firm had no business charging him 10? extra a suit because he weighed...
...Illinois Steel Corp. last week laid its money on the line and walked off with the biggest single cash sale the War Assets Administration had ever made. For $65,013,000, the U.S. Steel subsidiary bought the Government-owned steel facilities it had operated at Homestead, Duquesne, and Braddock, Pa. Everybody was happy. WAA clucked agreeably over the price, which it called 100% of the "fair value" and 73% (including rentals already paid) of the plants' original high wartime cost...
...hospital in Allentown, Pa., where she was taken, the immediate problem was feeding the mother and her unborn child. The delivery was still six months away, and natural forces would come into play at the right time. Many paralytics and iron-lung mothers have given birth to normal babies; their condition is somewhat similar to that induced by the pain-killing caudal anesthesia...