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...illustration, the Met had wheeled in sculpture, painting and prints from most of its vast departments, had even borrowed a few pieces from the advance-guard Museum of Modern Art. As a result, the show was a sort of digest version of the Met itself, and as it was all in one place, a little easier on the feet of the tourists who would be dropping in all summer...
...costs cut its net from $8,155,176 to $7,593,797. Even the airline and aircraft industries, which had long been ailing, were perking up. Prime example: Douglas Aircraft Co., which had earned only $23,862 in 1948's first quarter, this year earned $2 million, the result of rearmament contracts and a cost-cutting campaign. American Airlines, which lost $4.2 million in the 1948 quarter, cut its loss...
...Novelist Norman's hero also had reserves of character somewhere, but nothing ever quite happens to prove the point, one way or the other. In this, as in the effectively drawn picture of David Gerald in love, the book may be true to its time and place; the result, nonetheless, is of David Gerald in a partial vacuum...
...wrote the life of Hawthorne for the original "American Men of Letters" series, Hawthorne's biographers did not do much research on the facts of his life. Instead, they have speculated and commented, with varying degrees of critical acumen and psychological acuteness, on his published works. One result is that in the past 50 years a series of well-nigh indistinguishable opuses have been written about him. Their general story is that Hawthorne was descended from one of the witchcraft judges of Salem; that his father, a sea captain, died when he was three; that he went to Bowdoin...
Over 400 new workers may be added to the local social service field as the result of Saturday's intercollegiate conference on volunteer social service at Phillips Brooks House, Johm C. Pttenger '51 of PBH estimated yesterday...