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While California's Governor Olson held conference and OPM's Eli Leslie Oliver looked around for a formula by which unhappy machinists could back down without losing face, and a Senate Committee investigating the defense program threatened to call disputants to Washington, West Coast Communists slyly sprinkled salt in wounds, did what they could to prolong the ruckus. Still stranded on this labor shoal at week's end were a total $500,000,000 worth of Navy contracts (27 destroyers, four cruisers, 43 auxiliaries) and a Maritime Commission program of 74 freighters and three passenger-cargo ships...
...journalism in the U.S. and most of them are far from good enough. This was the conclusion reached by a report issued last week by the National Council on Professional Education for Journalism-a council whose chief mover is the dean of one of the best schools, Kenneth Olson of Northwestern University...
...nauseated by his triumphant corruption of the world, prays God to put an end to mankind. Since Gabriel's first cockcrow, seven Messiahs have done their miraculous best to redeem mankind. But their efforts only went to convince Donne in the 17th Century-and only go to reconvince Olson in the 20th-"that to save this world God Himself must needs be born into it; and even then He can but make it worthy to be destroyed...
...Olson brings out the design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
Soul or no soul, as Olson sees it, man is nonetheless doomed...