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...showed other American qualities: almost overnight he pulled a bankrupt parish in a Boston suburb out of the red. Much more the administrator than the philosopher, he moved up as Archbishop of New York, richest see in the U.S. (and the world), managed its complex charities and institutions with a sure hand...
TIME, Jan. 28, describes a "staggeringly complex" and "technically audacious" scheme of the Russians, the Greater Volga Project, to raise the level of ancient seas and reverse the flow of rivers...
...Yorkers often suspect that their complex metropolis floats on quicksand. This week their suspicions were at least partially confirmed. In a move unprecedented in peacetime and more drastic than any ever taken in war, Mayor William D. O'Dwyer suddenly called a halt to all the city's activities except those absolutely essential...
...they understand? The Sarawak people agree to anything the Raja wants. It's just a case of a few leading ones squatting on the verandah and saying, 'Yes, Raja!' But they don't like Anthony Brooke-he's got a power complex. If he wants a game of golf, he phones the police to have the road cleared for his car. If we want a game, we walk...
...paintings to an exhibition entitled "Museums' Choice." Last week the results were on view. Artists best liked by the museum directors: the late great Marsden Hartley, Maine modern whose rough-cut, bright-colored canvases were scorned by museums 20 years ago; Japanese-American Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose slick, complex workmanship is especially admired by fellow artists...