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Among the bleak, soot-smudged buildings in Paris' Malakoff suburb, one small factory shines out like a beacon. Its neat brick walls are covered with vines; the windows are immaculately clean. Inside the red iron gate there is a courtyard filled with bronze statues. Plump Renoir and Maillol nudes stand side by side with muscular Bourdelle torsos, Rodin figures, and a host of lesserworks. On most of the statues, two names are inscribed. The first is the sculptor's; the second is that of the man who turned it into bronze, Eugene Rudier, the foundry...
Lancashire Is Alarmed. First on the House agenda was the alarming and growing slump in Britain's textile industry (see below). In the soot-stained towns of Lancashire, cotton mills by the score had shut down their looms. Said Labor M.P. Harry Hynd: "The people see the specter ... of the dole queues forming again, and the return of the soup kitchens and pawnshops...
...intruder, after a four-year battle that began back in 1945. By that year, the gasworks had already spread to within a quarter of a mile of Christ Church, had ruined the view of Folly Bridge, was besmirching Pembroke College with smoke and soot. As if that were not enough, the company announced that it was about to build a new gas retort, 92 ft. high. With that, townsmen, gownsmen, and the entire city council rose in wrath...
...with dozens of federal and state inspectors who had come to West Frankfort, Ill. to investigate the pre-Christmas coal-mine blast which killed 119 miners was grizzled old John L. Lewis. He put on a helmet, headlight and work clothes for a personal underground inspection. Eight hours later, soot-streaked and weary, he came to the surface, where photographers got a picture that would show other union miners that the Boss still knows his way around the pits...
...Switch Thrown. In the train, those passengers who were not in on the plot became alarmed. Women tried to soothe screaming babies. A toothless old man jumped to his feet, staring wildly out the window. "You should have seen the coal smoke and soot from that locomotive," he said. "It came in the window two fingers thick...