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...daughter in 1941,*six months later joined the paper as a cub reporter, then moved into management, where he became a firm but authority-delegating executive, developing the Times's Western edition last year, then acting as background negotiator and front-line administrator of the paper's skeleton 900-man staff (normally 5.000) during the 114-day New York newspaper strike, a tedious period that broke his health; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...other on the biological sciences, to be preceded by sound, testable achievement in high school." The first was to be "a specially developed, hard-hitting, substance-centered physical science course combined with mathematics, one which uses the major formative cases in the development of physical science as a skeleton on which to base case studies in depth...
...Leverett House Arts Festival opened yesterday under a skeleton of geodesic dome it had erected in former years; something went wrong, and instead of the planned lofty vault, a series of arches appeared...
...their wallets. Stephen Greene. 44. lost his style. Already established as a figurative artist, he won a coveted Prix de Rome in 1949. but cut it short after three months and returned to the U.S. shattered and ill. After he recuperated, he painted a stark, disturbing study of a skeleton crucified on an easel...
Meistermann regards architecture as the skeleton of the structure, his window's as the muscles and skin. "Modern architecture often tends to be utterly frugal, without fantasy or color," he says. "Man needs something human, a colorful element to break through such monotony. You cannot live with either water or des ert solely. Stained glass provides the living elements, the human touch...