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...legged, web-seated chair, which some fellow experts consider the finest of its kind. Robsjohn-Gibbings (pronounced the way it is spelled) has spent years fashioning tricky, glass-topped tables and elegant gadgets for the Park Avenue trade. Now he wants to design furniture for the workingman. A learned, articulate, 38-year-old U.S. citizen who settled in Manhattan in 1936, Robsjohn-Gibbings has made a careful study of furniture from Ancient Egypt to the present. "The Greeks," he was amazed to learn, "made a good chair design and used it for 500 years. They said, 'Now we have...
Atlanta. Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sutton lived in a grey, asbestos-shingled cottage (rented) in a solid, modest, workingman's district. Ted Sutton, 38, was a truck driver for the Railway Express. On Sundays he was an usher at the Baptist Church, sang in the choir...
Scotland was burning last week, as any Clydesider in any pub would have told you: "A scandal, lad, a scandal. The Parliament allowing only half a day to a debate on the dismal category of trends and tendencies in Scotland. Ah, lad, the Scottish workingman is getting the short end of the horn as usual...
...workingman in Scotland was too busy to do more than grouse about what he suspected, but the awful realities of Scotland's economy moved a chill hand over the hearts of Scotland's industrialists. Last week able, convincing Secretary of State for Scotland Tom Johnston, onetime editor of a left-wing Independent Labor Party newspaper, hung the high Scottish grouse before Parliament's nostrils...
...days before this a workingman had stabbed a German officer in the Métro station of the Bastille. Everyone on the platform and on the train was arrested. A certain number of them were allowed to see their families. They were optimistic and said they would be home soon. They were executed the next...