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...disregard one for the other, you then create a situation either of doubtful military strength, or of such precarious economic strength that your military position is in constant jeopardy. It has been the purpose of this Administration ever since it took office, finding itself confronted with a crazy quilt of promises, commitments and contracts, to bring American military logic and American economic logic into joint, strong harness...
...routes of Delta Air Lines form a jagged Y from Chicago to Miami and from Atlanta to Dallas. But Delta President C. E. Woolman would like them to cover the eastern half of the U.S. like a crazy quilt. In 1950, he made a deal to merge with Northeast, thus cash in on some lucrative New England business. Then he offered to buy the southern routes of Capital Airlines. Last week, while both these deals awaited approval, Woolman dreamed of further expansion...
Houston's verdict was that Bemelmans' art lives up to the Bemelmans purpose. The paintings in the show were done mostly in France and Italy-a world of squiggly churches, toyland villages and sunlit harbors, all as gay as a crazy quilt. But Bemelmans' own favorites are his paintings of people in restaurants. "A restaurant," says he, "is a refuge. I sit there floating with a bottle of wine and silently observe. Instead of a bird watcher, I am a people watcher...
...chance for a calm non-partisan examination of our internal security problem has been lost. It vanished last Saturday when President Truman regretfully accepted the resignation of the Nimitz Commission. This group of nine outstanding civilians headed by Admiral Chester Nimitz was to study our crazy-quilt security program and make recommendations for uniform standards and procedures. It was sabotaged by a single senator, one who makes a practise of subordinating the nation's interest...
...swallowed his pride, and turned over financial control of his overextended empire to a board of regents headed by Manhattan Lawyer Clarence Shearn and Broker John W. Hanes, former Under Secretary of the Treasury. For Hearst himself, it meant a cut in his reckless spending; for his crazy-quilt domain it meant consolidations, ruthless budget cuts. One night in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, Marion Davies did her bit: she calmly wrote out a check for $1,000,000 and handed it across a table to W.R. Choking, Hearst told her: "Some day, Marion, I'll make...