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Because of the longstanding dispute, El Chamizal's 600 acres are just thinly-settled river bottoms, with a shanty town, a few small packinghouses, a stockyard and a high school. But El Paso wants its title cleared so that El Chamizal can be developed. Roughhewn Texas Congressman Ewing Thomason, who wants to put a spanking new federal building there and build a new international bridge to Juarez, reportedly had President Truman's promise last week that he would keep El Chamizal in mind in Mexico City...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
...husky, roughhewn Lloyd T. Jones, onetime Kentucky minister, organizer and president of the Murray local, went the knotty job of selling suspicious workers the plan to work harder. By plugging the hard fact that their pay could increase only through the adoption of the incentive plan, Union Leader Jones got it approved for a trial period in the Ecorse plant...
...good a Guinea Pig as the best of them is Subsistence Lab's big (six-feet-two), roughhewn guiding genius, Lieut. Colonel Rohland A. Isker. A hearty but discriminating eater rather than a scientist, Colonel Isker built a solid reputation in the cavalry by always feeding his men the best there was. He went to the Q.M.C. Subsistence School in 1934, later became commanding officer of the laboratory. Not all his experiments have been successful. Tomato bread, for example, was a flop...
...CRIMSON THREAD-Lilian Lauferfy -Simon & Schuster ($2). A trio of deaths in the family of a rich Connecticut autocrat is cannily elucidated by a roughhewn local law officer, with considerable help from a bright girl radio scripter. Emotion sometimes clouds the plot, but the general effect is pleasing...