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...analyzing the one unmistakable clue left by the kidnaper: a crude wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...
...Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, to mention a few, are doctor and insurance salesman respectively. Of this group, Archibald MacLeish has been the closest to the nerve center of public opinion, political foray, and philosophic debate. Assistant Secretary of State, Assistant Director of the Office of War Information, and planer of the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organization are among the positions that he has held...
...chief planer of the foreign-policy plank was John Foster Dulles, who had begun the task more than two months ago. He talked foreign policy with Dwight Eisenhower in France last May, and returned to the U.S. ready to come out for Ike. But about that time, Bob Taft called to say that he had read Dulles' foreign-policy views in LIFE and generally agreed with them. Dulles and the Eisenhower forces decided that he should stay publicly neutral to work out a foreign-policy plank that would avoid a party split on that issue. Said Dulles, just before...
Obligation. The letters deal largely with the period of Wagner's tempestuous first marriage (to Actress Minna Planer), when he composed The Flying Dutchman, Tannähuser, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde, and they hardly reveal a new Richard Wagner. Rather, they amplify the old one-the "Archegotist" who called on his friends to pick up the checks and often gave them his scorn in return, the German genius who believed the world owed him both a living and its unbounded love, and offered it great operas in return...
...taught to run a lathe (a machinist's first lesson) in six to eight weeks at school. Then he graduates to a factory, begins at once to produce on his lathe. Thereafter he progresses, under instruction from a factory foreman and in night school, to drill press, shaper, planer, grinder, milling and screw machine. Advantages of this system: 1) training is much faster, 2) trainees produce while they learn, 3) fewer teachers are needed...