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When he got back home in 1870, American painting was still dominated by the academic romantics, whose vast landscapes had a certain grandeur but also a basic falseness. Like Winslow Homer, Eakins concentrated on day-to-day scenes, but unlike Homer, nature itself was not his primary concern. His Mending the Net (see color) is an example of his attitude: the landscape interested him only as a setting for people...
...PIES AND OTHER RECIPES (by Marjorie Winslow, with illustrations by Erik Blegvad; Macmillan; $2.50) varies between arch and fallen arch. The sly fringe benefit for parental readers is the spoofing of standard cookbook lingo. Sample recipe...
...local Howard Johnson restaurant refused to serve Dr. William Fitzjohn, then chargé d'affaires from Sierra Leone, mended its offenses last week. After inviting the visitor back to town (just before his departure to become High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's), Mayor Winslow F. Burhans met the police-escorted motorcade at the city limits, later honored the colorfully draped Fitzjohn at a banquet attended by 200 of Hagerstown's most prominent citizens, including 30 Negro couples. Also gracing the town's first mixed social event in memory: a hand-sewn Sierra Leone...
Died. Dallas E. Winslow, 68, a Michigan farm boy who quit school in the sixth grade to become a piano-key fitter, bought a gas station on the installment plan, invested the profits in a Detroit pool hall, and then began buying up faltering businesses,* finally organizing a multimillion-dollar net of farm machine, lawn mower, and auto parts factories under the parent Mast-Foos Co., of which he was president until his death; of complications following surgery for lung cancer; in Detroit. On the theory that "happy employees do a better job," during his last 40 years in business...
...search of companies to buy, Winslow advertised twice in TIME in 1950, got 900 replies, bought up seven firms for $2,740,000 as a result...