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...yourself cult are such bigwigs as U.S. Steel Vice President David Austin, who has a two-room, $5,000 woodworking workshop packed into his Pittsburgh apartment; former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who makes his own furniture; TV and Radio Luminaries Desi Arnaz, Edgar Bergen and Fibber McGee, who spend their spare time puttering around with shelves and kitchen cabinets; Movie and Recording Stars George Montgomery, Perry Como, Dan Duryea and Jane Russell, who do their own handiwork, build boats and furniture; the Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, who is currently helping fellow airmen rebuild a private...
...Toolmakers. In the fast-growing market, the fastest-growing business of all is in the basic machines for the do-it-yourself workshop. Before the war, the power-tool industry rarely topped $25 million in sales; now it is a $200 million business, with a 25% increase predicted for 1954, and its products are America's most popular gadgets. Old companies in the field have suddenly come to life, dozens of new ones have popped up. Such firms as the Rockwell Mfg. Co., DeWalt Inc. and Black & Decker Mfg. Co. have brought out whole lines of better, easier...
After four decades of increasing effort, U.S. opera composers are beginning to find their own level. Last week Manhattan's Columbia University Opera Workshop showed off two new works. Both were written with an eye to TV, had cast off the clichés of Italian grand-opera tradition and tried to replace them with something recognizably American: plots that deal with such topics as psychoanalysis and lynching, and melodies that have some of the easy grace-and some of the shallowness-of Broadway show tunes...
Even with its shortcomings of cast and script, In the Lion's Mouth, I should repeat, was exciting and generally enjoyable. The very fact of an all-student production on a regular New Theatre Workshop schedule is a very pleasant sign for Harvard drama. Bringing this season of locally written plays to an end, the HDC production of Mr. Amfitheatrof's work promises much for next year...
Steinberg, author of the book, "In the Workshop of the Revolution," spent most of his two hour talk analyzing the thinking and actions of the Bolshevik leaders, which led to his eventual resignation from the Revolutionary government...