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Your excellent cover and article on the great painter is a shaft of brilliant light in the brownstone world of dying avant-garde abstractionism...
...sawed off the top of the thigh bone (femur), ground the remaining end of the bone to the right depth and angle. He reamed out a hemispheric cavity in the pelvic bone, to accommodate the socket part of the metal ball-and-socket joint. Dr. Wilson drove a long shaft (bearing the ball) into the marrow cavity and fitted a flange (just below the ball) to the head of the femur. Another flange, on the socket, he screwed to the rim of the acetabulum (the socket cavity in the pelvic bone). A collar to hold the ball in the socket...
...through mismanagement, inexperience, selfishness and corruption, nearly all the plans went wrong. Many miners, freed from tin-baron discipline, now work at the shaft faces only three hours a day. A vast above-ground bureaucracy milks the treasury for wages. Worst of all, mine commissaries, begun years ago to provide miners with essentials at subsidized prices, have grown out of all proportion because miners buy commissary goods to resell in black markets. Commissary sales last year were double the entire miners' payroll, and the subsidies amounted to 77% of the cost of running the mines. On the land...
...Museum's elevator offered unique possibilities, since it was neither automatic nor electric. The only mechanical advantage consisted of a winch and a few gears at the top of the shaft. To go up, one simply kept pulling down the main rope. The elevator descended of its own accord with any sort of a weight. And to stop at any of the floors, the rider pulled on the "brake rope," which stopped the winch from unwinding...
...uncertain, J.D.R. Jr. started work amid the massive rolltop desks, mustard-colored carpets and bare walls of his father's offices at 26 Broadway, New York. His first jobs there were filling inkwells, deciding the size of the bran bins of the family stables, dispatching a large granite shaft to Cleveland for the family's cemetery plot. Within a few years, however, he began to collect directorships of U.S. Steel, Colorado Fuel & Iron, the National City Bank, Standard Oil of New Jersey and others. Then he lost $1,000,000 on a catastrophic venture into the stock market...