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...Hart Crane...
...towboats, all manner of river craft. Prime mover of this sideline was big, nervous Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Jr., only son of Ingalls Iron Works' shrewd, crusty, hard-working president, who likes to say that he founded his business in 1910 "with a nigger, a mule and a wooden crane. ..." Pleased with his new sidelines, Father Ingalls two years ago agreed to build the big new yard at Pascagoula for the express purpose of getting part of the $1,000,000,000 Maritime Commission program...
...Cambridge division is headed by a Harvard faculty committee of six, composed of Professors Charles H. Taylor, chairman, C. Crane Brinton, Edward H. Chamberlain, Bruce Hopper, and Edward K. Rand, and William J. Bingham, Director of Physical Education...
...Zolaesque ghost of naturalism came back to haunt the screen of the U. T. John Steinbeck's picture of ranch hands struggling against an unnamed force that drives them to destruction is a company little exercise that might have been carved out of the space, gaunt stories of Stephen Crane, or the vast welter of Frank Norris's novels. It has Crane's economy and concentrated power, combined with Norris's careful documentation of detail. It is this detail that makes the film a masterpiece--the whirring belts of farm machinery, dogs hanging around the stable, the dusty curtains...
Died. Thomas Beer, 50, author of The Mauve Decade, Stephen Crane, Hanna; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Slow and obliquely precious in his writing, he produced few books, many potboilers for the Satevepost. Hipped on the influence of visual color on human life, he struggled ten years to prove his spectrum, left an unfinished volume on the subject...