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...Yearn From Childhood. Since childhood Bob Wagner, now 46, has yearned for the Senate seat that was held 22 years by his famed father, the New Deal stalwart for whom the Wagner Labor Relations Act was named. But Young Bob was plainly reluctant to run this year. The obvious time would have been against Republican Irving Ives in 1958-when he would not be bucking a ticket headed by Dwight Eisenhower. Moreover, for a family man there was the matter of personal sacrifice. As mayor, Wagner gets $40,000 a year in salary, $25,000 a year tax-free...
Ostensibly, Jason is one of those charming, feckless boy-men whom women love and yearn to mother and men find alternately fascinating and exasperating. But from the moment Jason is displayed as a terrified small boy, cringing before the hectoring of his retired-general father, the most cursory student of Medic can predict what is coming-the compulsive lying to cover up innocent misdemeanors, the bad time at public school, where a senior prefect spoils him and thereby earns him the hostility of the whole school and a brutal beating, the intense Jewish girl whose love drives him to deeds...
...until 1943 that Burchfield began to find his way home again. One day, while mounting work from his Ohio days, Burchfield suddenly decided to use his early sketches as a starting point, expand them in his old lyric style. The attempt, he wrote, released "a long-pent-up subconscious yearning to do fanciful things, and once started, it seemed to sweep onward like a flooded stream; there was no stopping it." An example of Burchfield's new-found freedom is Summer Afternoon (opposite), started as a sketch in 1917 and completed as a watercolor in 1948. The finished scene...
While there are still executives who yearn for the old days, when the boss gave orders and everyone else carried them out, there is no doubt that conferences are likely to become even more solidly established as a handy management tool-if wisely used...
...Lyndon Johnson was quick to send a ringing endorsement. "The President's proposal," he said, "is the daring, imaginative stroke for which a war-weary world has been waiting. It will test the good faith of the Communists and separate the warmongers from the peacemakers. The American people yearn for peace-peace that will maintain their traditional freedoms . . . This proposal is our pledge of sincerity and good faith." This week, when the President flew in to Washington, he was greeted by a throng that included Vice President and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Knowland, other members of Congress and the diplomatic...