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Changing Face. The face of midtown was changing fast. The dark old stone mansion on Fifth Avenue, where for years old Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt stubbornly held her stately dinners within earshot of swirling shopping crowds and the snarl of Fifth Avenue buses, had been replaced by Crowell-Collier's new white office building. Next to Rockefeller Center, the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas crumbled before the wrecking ball and plans for a new building for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. A great, bare office building was rising on the site of the Murray Hill Hotel, in whose Victorian...
Bessie in Flight. During World War II, old Bessie (built by International Business Machines Corp. and presented by I.B.M. to Harvard) was given the job of evaluating mathematically an electrically powered cannon that the Nazis were known to be building. Bessie chewed into a snarl of equations and proved that the weapon was utterly impractical. The U.S. relaxed while the Germans, who had no Bessie, went on wasting enormous effort on an impossible task...
Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If their sort of painting represented the most vital force in contemporary U.S. art, as some critics had contended...
Interesting acting job: Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, as Stark's hard-boiled assistant, puts a snarl and growl into her radio-trained voice, spreading a small bonfire through her scenes and stealing them...
...sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into his buddy, and then travels the rest of the familiar road...