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...documentary movie, The River (TIME, Nov. 8), is a hard poem of U. S. rivers. In Desert Near Santa Fe he caught with a series of fine washes, quickly dried with the brush, the 90-mile, lucent light of the Southwest; in Color Splendor he framed the broad Shenandoah Valley. Critics who doubt the permanency of soft poems noted that in at least one painting, Savage Trees, he swirled a brush full of rich color in a freer, more furious style...
...story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell had taken her stand in Dixie, Pittsburgh-born Hervey Allen, whose grandfather had fought with the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, took sides with the boys in blue. Traveling on foot and by auto through the Shenandoah Valley, he gathered his material as resolutely and almost as slowly as his forefathers advanced upon Richmond...
Dreamer. Reno Stitely earned $2.300 a year as chief voucher clerk in the National Park Service of the Interior Department. One day in 1934 he had an inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed of Mr. Stitely's camp but he gave it an imaginary supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys...
...authorship of The Road to Plenty, which predicted a perpetual upward spiral of prices & profits, the latter because as the self-made head of Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp.., he was a millionaire many times over and the floater of Wall Street's two most spectacular investment trusts, Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. When they collapsed with Depression, Waddill Catchings, by then a director of 29 corporations, left Goldman, Sachs, has since been associated with Millionaire Harrison Williams whose North American Co. with $900,000.000 assets is one of the biggest utility holding companies in the U. S. Muzak Corp...
When Mrs. Faye Larrison of Caldwell, Ohio was tending her garden, she said, she pulled up a weed encircled by a gold ring. Looking inside she saw the name Zachary Lansdowne. Thus, twelve years after the crash of the U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was found the Annapolis class ring of its dead commander. The Navy Department and Commander Lansdowne's friend J. Edgar Hoover had been trying to find the ring since 1925, get it back to his widow, who has since remarried...