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Elizabeth Etnier's The Willow is a cleanly written story of a Maine coast tragedy. Like a lot of people, young Maud and Dave Higgens were enchanted by the idea of escaping dull jobs in New York and going to live on a lovely island. Actually, they were misfits, "artistic" without being artists, totally unable to cope with life. At first, life on the island was the idyl they had dreamed, but when their money ran out and children came, the cruel business of earning a living in a hard country turned romance into a poverty-draped nightmare. With...
James Harkless sang his group of English and Italian art songs with simplicity and fluency. His mellow, relaxed style, however, seemed fitting only in "The Willow Song" and in Salvator Rosa's "Star Vincino." The rest quickly became cloying...
...WILLOW Run, built by the Government for plane production by Ford in World War II and bought in 1948 by Kaiser, may end up as a General Motors plant. G.M., which leased 40% of Willow Run after its Hydra-Matic transmission plant at Livonia burned down last Aug. 12, is sounding out Kaiser Motors on the possibility of buying the huge property...
...final payoff in Fairchild's long and bitter wrangle with Kaiser, whose subsidiary. Chase Aircraft, had designed the C-123. The trouble started soon after Korea, when the Air Force farmed out an order for 159 of Fairchild's Cng cargo planes to Kaiser's Willow Run plant. Fairchild thought it should be allowed to make the C-119's itself. Kaiser not only kept the C-119 contract but got another, for 244 of Kaiser's own Chase C-123 Avitrucs. But K-F's costs were so high...
...scheduled 1953 output. Chevrolet cannot make enough Powerglide transmissions to supply Pontiac, and Buick cannot fill all of Cadillac's needs for Dynaflow transmissions. But the fire will not affect G.M.'s 1954 models, which will use transmissions made in rented quarters at Willow...