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Beneath the silver dome of the Illinois statehouse at Springfield there were cartographers enough for Rand McNally. Republican mapmakers and Democratic mapmakers, pressure-group mapmakers and reform-minded mapmakers, all were busily plotting their own charts for redistricting Illinois-and the outcome of their efforts may have a lot to do with who controls the U.S. House of Representatives after next year's elections...
LIFE PICTORIAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD (600 pp.)-LIFE and Rand McNally...
...atlas must be a tome, but it need not to be a tombstone. The editors of LIFE and the mapmakers of Rand McNally have produced a popular atlas which is not only larger and glossier than others in its class (it does not compete with such technicians' works as the five-volume, $125 London Times Atlas of the World), but which gives a reader the earth's shape and feel as well as its names and places...
...finding a replacement for Davies, Munro plans to make full use of the unlimited substitution rule of the New England League and juggle Ken Rand, Dave Clapp, and possibly fullback Sandy Cortesi in Davies' right-half slot...
...spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...