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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobby James and Johnny Rigby will probably start at the guard positions in their first assignments of the year, although Bud Finegan may get one place, Ed Rothschild at center and BILL Webber and Captain Charley Lutz at the forwards will make up the rest of the starters...
THIS year's U.S. Camera has its quota of unaesthetic nudes, meaningless pattern designs, and pretty pictures, which constitute too large a part of the book; but after wading through it, there are several photographs which make it a worth-while volume--top honors going to Edward Steichen, Bradford Washburn, Martin Munkacsi, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston...
Businessmen talking through their hats often make extravagant predictions for a new year. No hat prophecy, but a bareheaded appraisal of 1940's building prospects appears in the January ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. There are gathered the considered opinions of economists, several big statistical organizations, 130 bankers, contractors, city and FHA officials, realtors, architects, engineers, from 21 cities. Their composite conclusion: 1940 is likely to be the U. S. building industry's best year in a decade (damnation by faint praise), a $6,558,000,000 year, up only 4% from 1939 (1920-29 average...
Luckily for his book, Guiterman doesn't make many such plunges. He writes almost exclusively to offer reassurance (and sometimes succeeds in conveying it) that in a world in which Romans rhymes with abdomens, there must be room for play...
Guiterman belongs with the kind of humorists who make things funny, Thomas Temple Hoyne with those who find them so. Hoyne's "things" are not a stack of private slants on life, but the common denominators of American living, about which he knows plenty. A fourth-generation Chicagoan, Hoyne has followed the ropes as sports editor, financial editor, city editor, showman, broker, lawyer, Kentucky colonel. On Pilgrimage, his crudely but aptly illustrated book of verses, is as amateurish in its format and some of its contents as a home-made dog house. Within it lives a spirit that...