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Does Anybody Win? Mrs. Celinsky's market basket was indeed the center of the long verbal war before the WSB's fact-finding panel. Was the basket, as Murray claimed, too scant for the growing output of her steelworker husband? Or would it, as Moreell and the industry argued, actually shrink-in spite of higher wages-because of higher prices that would result from them...
...last week gave the Ford Motor Co. the green light for a price boost averaging close to 5% on 1952 models. But Ford said no thanks. Instead, Ford boosted prices a scant 3% on most models, actually reduced prices slightly on three. Ford was following the lead of General Motors, which did not take the full hike permitted by OPS under the Capehart Amendment...
...into the U.S. High Commissioner's office tottered 77-year-old Rudolf Ullstein, on the arm of his nephew Karl. As he signed the document of restitution, tears of joy streamed down the old man's face. With his property he got problems galore-back taxes, licenses, scant and high-priced newsprint. But these will be problems for Karl and his cousins, who will run Ullstein's. For old Rudolf, victory alone was enough. "Now," said he, "I can walk through the front door of my house again...
...Saturday, the Crimson varsity took eight out of ten events, with only one close contest. The tight affair came, oddly enough, in Harvard's one sure-fire-win event, in which Springfield low board ace Pat Huddleston gave Pete Dillingham a running dive for his money. Dillingham finished a scant eight points ahead, with...
...outstanding conclusion: in an age when most other arts have been going through revolutionary experiment, the medalists have been standing remarkably pat. Athletes, warriors, profiles of the great and near-great, eagles, lions and horses are still the favorite subjects. There is scant difference in style between a 16th Century coin likeness of Philip II of Spain and modern U.S. medallions of Henry Ford and Harry Truman. Among the most venturesome artists in the Madrid show were the Italians, and the venturesomeness was rewarded. Filippo Sgarlata's mildly impressionistic discs of hunters and shepherds won Madrid's first...