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...lithe-muscled figure is as straight as a master rod, his face, which looks younger than his 63 years, as emotionless as a cylinder head. Like an engine, he carries a normal workload easily and can turn on extra power when needed. A shy man, he seems to shrink from human contact, uses memos to notify his top men of raises. Even United Aircraft's President H. M. ("Jack") Horner, Rentschler's close aid for 23 years, still calls him "Mr. Rentschler...
...down like an accordion to an indecisive campaign and to an approximation of a stalemate," said he. "I shrink-I shrink with a horror that I cannot express in words-at this continuous slaughter...
...questions are, of course, rhetorical. I suspect that your writers have a carry-over Stover-at-Yale obsession from childhood, or that they are congenitally unhappy. For a reporter, by all journalistic canons with which I am acquainted, would shrink from taking one aspect of the life of a community (and even that was treated with liberal superficiality) and generalizing it as the overall picture. A visitor to Cambridge, for instance, might read the Lampoon's recent miscarriage and bruit it about that all Harvard men are intellectual snobs and/or obscene. Upon a perusal of the CRIMSON, he might conclude...
...road building, housing, etc. should be curtailed in order to free men and materials. Abroad, non-defense spending should likewise be cut. For with increased outlays by the U.S. to win local wars and build up defenses abroad, "there will be little more need of Marshall aid ... Exports will shrink as our labor and materials are diverted to the defense effort . . . The dollar gap will be filled...
...socks woven by Burlington Mills of nylon and Vicara, a new wool-like, mothproof synthetic, made from field corn. Vicara is reported to outwear wool, does not shrink, and sells for around 83? a lb. v. wool...