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Fourth Best. What Robert Young had got from the Van Sweringens was: 1) the profit-fat Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; 2) through the Alleghany Corp., the controlling interest in three other roads which sprawl across the U.S. heartland-the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate), the Pere Marquette, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie (see map). Last week, in Cleveland's Terminal Tower, the C & O's board of directors voted to merge all four railroads, make them one operating company...
...hangs at the entrance, to Josef Albers' Growing, a pure abstraction of irregularly shaped pink and green rectangles, hung in a corner of the farthest gallery. Between these extremes are such items as Philip Evergood's Rubber Raft, a war footnote in which two helpless, parched men sprawl on a raft surrounded by voracious sharks; Atlantic Pastorale, a surrealist ballet-in-seaweed by Leon Kelly; Darrel Austin's spellbinding half-dream of a mountain lion, The Great Beast; William Cropper's satirical Art Patrons...
...play had something, too. Anything but a good play, fissured with faults, encrusted with crudities, it was yet vivid theater. It had also, along with the sprawl, some of the scope of a novel. Its characters did too much and sometimes talked too fancily, but-escaping the prison of a rigid stage technique-they had an absurd, audacious vitality. Best of all, perhaps, Playwright Yordan cared about his people, and in his fumbling way saw life a little as greater writers have seen it-not just as a problem or struggle, but as a changing and clouded dream...
...morning they felt, as did many another painfully harassed U.S. citizen, that perhaps the U.S. had at last won a great battle at home-a prime requisite to winning the battles abroad that World War II may demand. At long last the President had moved decisively, whipping the vast sprawl of defense management into its first clear sense-making shape, dominated by an authoritative body called SPAB-Supply Priorities & Allocations Board. For the first time the President had delegated real authority, although he still jealously reserved his final say. On the 15-month anniversary of Defense he had at last...
...Public Interest. Governor Van Wagoner proclaimed that the public interest was involved. It certainly was. Not only were the jobs and wages of thousands of Michiganders involved; at River Rouge, whose buildings sprawl across 1,200 acres of Michigan land, their chimneys, tanks, furnaces, conveyors, cranes sprouting into the cold Michigan sky, men were beating ploughshares into swords-$122,000,000 worth. Already rolling off the bus assembly line were ugly, buglike reconnaissance cars ("Blitz Buggies") for the Army. Already in limited operation was a magnesium alloy foundry, turning out lightweight castings for airplane engines...