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...rate collection of old masters. (He stayed on in Florence to become the world's foremost authority on Renaissance art.) At the turn of the century, Mrs. Jack started construction of an Italian palace in the marshes on the outskirts of Boston. Already in her 60s, she joined workmen on the job, employed a cornetist to summon her foremen for conferences...
Just off Michigan Avenue in Chicago, workmen fixed an American flag to a steel girder, then signaled to a crane operator atop a 41-story building skeleton. While thousands of sidewalk superintendents looked on, the girder swiftly rose to the top (see cut), where it was fastened into place, "topping out" the $40 million Prudential Building, biggest skyscraper to be built in the U.S. in 15 years...
When Mendès himself appeared at the recent Radical-Socialist Party congress, drinking a glass of milk and urging all of the delegates "to do the same thing," he was greeted with roars of laughter. By last week the laughter was abating. Liquor interests, thirsty workmen, café owners, bartenders, home-brewers and, indeed, most of France's hard-drinking population, were mobilizing to combat the threat to their national pastime. They form a large bloc: one Frenchman in seven is involved in the making of wine; alcohol is France's largest industry, grossing some 675 billion...
...William O. Douglas, prolific writer about his rambles in the Far East, has struck off 366 little devotional essays on American liberty for the "common man's" year (which seems always to be leap year). Author Douglas almost immediately slogs down in pompous, naive paragraphs about public libraries, workmen's compensation, irrigation. Notwithstanding a few well-phrased obiter dicta on civil rights, he simply does not have the Alma-knack...
...said firmly, "I will not let our political assailants get away with the charge that I am unsympathetic with the problems of workmen." He noted that he began working at 18 for 18? an hour, that "fortunately" his pay kept pace with his growing family (six children), and that while hospitalized with a broken hip, he thought up G.M.'s model five-year labor contract. "I'll match my labor record with anyone," said Charlie Wilson. "I know what it is to work for a living...