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...steel industry is grimly opposed to puncturing scrap ceilings, mainly because that would increase steel costs. But no less an authority than Iron Age, the voice of the steel industry, came out on the junkies' side last week. Screamed this normally staid trade paper...
Gambling Seattle. Staid Seattle, its population swollen from 368,000 to 508,000 by war workers, has had twice as many arrests for drunkenness in six months as it had all last year. The city has its first successful burlesque house in 20 years. Customers stand in line at restaurants and theaters, pack the out-of-town roadhouses, keep the 25? slot machines clicking. Fourth Avenue and Pike Street, the hub of downtown Seattle, is often jampacked nearly 24 hours...
...Ordeal of Mark Twain) is nearly dead. DeVoto has done more than any other critic to kill that petticoat ghost, but in this book, with fresh evidence at hand, he gives it another kicking around. The author of the ribald 1601-itself a symptom of inhibition-needed neither his staid friend William Dean Howells nor his gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print; he was, in fact, as a writer, rather more prudish than Howells." This fact is subtly related to his limitations...
Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida is perhaps Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's most monumental work. It has been shocking the staid since its first appearance eleven years ago. One Chicago critic saw the picture and headlined his review: "Horror Features Exhibit." The detailed enormity of Ida, with her fat, sagging, varicose-veined and slightly lavender flesh, is Albright's hallmark. Merry-minded artist of ultra-gloomy pictures, Ivan Albright of Warrenville, Ill. increased his reputation with one of last season's most shuddered-at paintings. That Which I Should Have Done...
...Heinz Co. (57 Varieties) is going into "large-scale" production of plastic-plywood airplane and glider parts. To this startling announcement the staid, publicity-shy, 73-year-old food processor flatly refused to add a single word. One leaked-out fact: the work will be done on pressure machines formerly used for canning...