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With injuries and the late return of Gene Kinasewich hampering the effectiveness of Harvard's first line, the second line has taken up a good deal of the slack...
...million, and bank receipts of compulsory savings on the salaries of all wage earners have given the government a substantial supply of working capital. Though one-quarter of the total labor force is unemployed, a new $2.5 billion five-year plan is expected to take up much of the slack...
...Reluctant Saint. Little Giuseppe Desa was a miserable child. He was born in a mean village near Otranto, Italy, in the year 1603. His mother treated him "with great severity," and the child, sickly and confused, wandered about with dazed eyes and slack lips, understanding little, forgetting even to eat. The villagers called him Boccaperta, The Gaper, and considered him an idiot...
Many steelmen had hoped that this slack would be taken up by the auto industry, steel's biggest customer, which is heading toward its best year since 1955. Detroit would have been buying more steel lately-though not enough to revive the whole industry-had it not bought so much last winter as a hedge against a possible steel strike. Those supplies took quite a while to melt down. The automakers' stockpiles of steel are now close to the bone, and Detroit at long last is beginning to increase its orders...
...Looking at my things." Theodore Robinson wrote in his diary, "I feel pretty blue. There are glimmers here and there of refined good painting-but a woeful slackness-a lack of grasp, of inspiration, interest." Once, on seeing some of his paintings in an exhibition, he spluttered: "My things are bum with one exception, the girl sewing, which has something redeeming." Actually, Robinson was rarely slack and almost never bum: he was one 19th century American artist who deserves more than the comparative obscurity that has been his fate. Last week a welcome retrospective of his work (see color) opened...