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...until Lyon got double pay. Lyon's growing reputation finally got him into trouble. A Philadelphia bank had been robbed, and people said nobody could have got past its locks and bars except Blacksmith Lyon, who had recently repaired them. Protesting manfully, he was arrested and clapped in Walnut Street jail...
...Cleveland-Cliffs and Inland Steel Co. announced that they will build, near Marquette, Mich., the nation's first big jasper-mining and processing project. At peak production the Marquette plants will grind some 6,000,000 tons of jasper yearly, convert it into 3,000,000 tons of walnut-sized pellets that contain 60% iron...
...with their alliteration and charming metre, seem very well done. Aside from this, however, this issue's poetry is unexciting. Paul Flanigan has written a "pretty" sonnet, expressing Keatsian sentiments with rather abstract words. There is also another of Andre Gregory's hoaxes. This one is about a sea-walnut. John Ratte's cover is, as usual, architectural...
...Eisenhower, the entire rear third of the plane is devoted. There a softly muted green-"Eisenhower green"-strikes a note of easy relaxation: grey-green carpets on the floors, rich green gabardine on the walls, white vinyl plastic on the ceiling. In the spacious stateroom, with its bleached walnut woodwork and grey-green-striped boucle upholstery, the Eisenhowers may fasten themselves with green safety belts into two big green swivel chairs, gazing out at blue sky through green-curtained windows. At night they may retire on the two wide green divans that convert into luxurious three-quarter beds, falling asleep...
After the speechmaking, a corps of 40 uniformed guides took guests on a tour of. the labor palace. They saw a 472-seat auditorium decorated in 23-karat gold leaf and equipped for CinemaScope and Vista-Vision, a walnut-paneled conference room with a large pear-shaped table, an executives' dining room with television and canned music, a coffee room, private shower baths for top officials, wood-paneled offices for all bigwigs. There were oil paintings, lobbies walled in Aurisina Fiorito marble, ashtrays costing $7.50 apiece on the conference tables, and bronze boxes for outgoing mail ($17.50 apiece...