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Carnegie's judges had voted $1,000 first prize to Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths for a knotty grey-green what-is-it entitled Gear (TIME, Oct. 21). But when the gallerygoers' ballots were all in, they had voted, as they did in 1944, for conservative Cox. Cox's highly stylized brand of the bucolic-a plush wheat field under an exploding cloud-had the same kind of crowd appeal as the seascapes of the late Frederick J. Waugh (Waugh won the Carnegie popularity prize five years running...
...such production frills which add nothing to car performance (and may save car buyers dollars eventually), Browning hopes to pile up savings of $20 million, based on a "normal" million car year (slightly more than current production: 3,800 units per day). Only a shift into high-gear production could make up the rest...
...biggest trouble was that G.M.'s costs were racing along while production was in low gear. The strike had cut G.M.'s sales for the first quarter of 1946 to $74 million (v. 1940-41 sales of $500 million per quarter). And after the strike was settled, G.M.'s increased labor force (400,000 employes v. 274,000 in 1941) produced half as many cars as the company had put out before...
Having just completed organization of a dance committee, the Freshmen will swing into gear on their social season a trifle late for the traditional November madness. They plan a formal dance in the Union a few weekends later...
Acting while the Student Council committee investigating House parietal rules was still grinding into second gear, the seven University House masters were found late yesterday to have already taken steps for standardizing rules for women guests to an extent considered "as far as practicable...