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Industrialist Harriman, 51, looked like a good man for the job. Despite his glittering social background Harriman is no playboy. He has worked on a section gang, was a surveyor, once worked as a fireman on the Union Pacific. Now U.P.'s chairman of the board, he is known as one of the most liberal of U.S. industrialists, is also known as a hardheaded businessman who has made (and sometimes lost) millions on flyers...
...planes the Japs bombed on Hickam Field at Pearl Harbor wore an identifying emblem that had marked U.S. warplanes since World War I, and was as familiar to air-minded Americans as the national flag: a white star superimposed on a circular blue background and carrying a red disc in its center...
Leger's childhood supplied plenty of background for an elegist of dying civilizations. His family was old French-Colonial stock (his enemies like to call Leger a mulatto), which had lived for two centuries in the West Indies. Alexis was born (1887) on the family's coral island of Saint-Leger les Feuilles, near Guadeloupe. Once a cyclone picked up little Alexis and left him in a treetop. Once his Hindu nurse, a secret priestess of Siva, took him to a Siva temple, painted him black and stood him in a niche above the worshipers. Then she made...
...were accompanied in fine style by Brother Fellett. Bob Geis caused a stir of anticipation when he came forward to sing the company's favorites, "One Alone" and "Without A Song." His powerful voice drew roars of applause from every man. Leo Schumer at the piano furnished the musical background...
Painter Varda also includes just enough of some subsidiary color in each collage to "perfume or accent" the dominant color. "This perfume," says Varda, "makes the painting sing." Sometimes he gets effects of transparency by dabbing nuances of background color on foreground subjects. As long as the effect is stimulating and gay, Varda says: Damn the blotches...