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...Roland Harriman, 54, son of the late Railroad Builder E. H. Harriman, younger brother of Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman, was named president of the American Red Cross, succeeding General George C. Marshall, who will resign Dec. 1. A partner in his family's Wall Street banking firm (Brown Bros., Harriman), Yaleman ('17) Harriman is chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad, directed the 1949 Red Cross fund campaign...
They frequently disagree-at first. George, the self-taught expert on finance, usually holds back, raises the practical obstacles, demanding: "If we do this, where's the money to come from?" John, the bold empire builder, is always tugging ahead, might overreach himself but for George...
...object of the new regulations was to cut new housing construction from the current rate of 1,400,000 units a year to 800,000. But builders cried that the cut would be much greater. Said Long Island's Builder William J. Levitt: "We'll be lucky to have a half million housing units built in 1951." Some other builders thought it would...
...party had, wearily swept back his thatch of hair (a well-trimmed thatch these days to match his well-tailored suit). Said he: "In the ensuing dislocation there would not be many houses going up. Good heavens! Think of the price of compensation-even down to the jobbing builder in every village...
Zadkine's father was a riverboat builder in the Russian city of Smolensk, and the sculptor's ambition has always been to make his works "as beautiful and perfect as a well-built boat." That simile would never have occurred to classical sculptors, who took the human body as their measure of perfection. It partly explained the mixture of respect for his materials, trim severity and bargelike bluntness in Zadkine...