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Despite his chosen isolation in the West-where he retreated after some years as a peripatetic museum curator, a stint at Harvard's art history school and service as an art consultant with the OSS in Washington during World War II-Curtis has his international admirers. John Russell, art critic of the London Sunday Times, calls him "one of the last of the great hermits-St. Jerome without the lion." In the foreword to the catalogue for a retrospective of Curtis' work, Clare Boothe Luce observes: "To accept, as Philip Curtis does, that human folly and wisdom alike...
...broadcasting point out that the insufficiency of that service is probably less attributable to the networks than to the local channels. Affiliated stations frequently undercut the networks' efforts to increase cultural and public-affairs programming by refusing to carry it. Similarly, in order to increase profits, the stations stint on such programming at home. A recent informal poll of local newspaper editors by the trade paper Variety found that in their opinion more than 100 U.S. channels did not properly serve the interests of the community...
...almost from the days when the first assembly line started rolling. In fact, the conditions that so depress Belcher are not as bad as they once were. Under union pressure, companies have made some improvements. Shifts are a bit shorter now than the 3:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. stint that Walter Reuther worked at Ford in 1927. Over the years, the union has won regular relief breaks, the system of roving relief men, and doors on toilets. Some workers who do especially dirty jobs such as painting, now get company-paid special clothing. Many plants now have enclaves away...
...Robert Finch, who once considered an acting career, starred in the segment. And waiting in the wings is Spiro Agnew. The Vice President will introduce Red Skelton's new fall show on NBC. Lest he carry this show-business gig too far, Agnew then nixed a Laugh-In stint-even though his boss did a turn with Rowan and Martin in pre-presidential days...
...only for menial jobs. As early as 1919, Whitney Young's father earned $300 a month as a Ford Motor electrical engineer and was one of the best-paid blacks in the U.S. Henry Ford II worked under a black foreman while doing a stint in the engine department between college terms...