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Thus was Britain prepared, with customary sweetness and light, for Hugh Dalton's birthing. But no Briton was wholly prepared for the shock of what he delivered (see below...
...first shock of the first nationwide telephone strike wore off, the U.S. pinched itself to see if it still could move and talk. It could-and with surprising alacrity...
More & more Europeans are saying that these days. It might come as a shock to onetime isolationists in Osakis, Minn, and Kokomo, Ind. to hear such close approximations from the Continent of their 1915 and 1940 arguments...
...Paris' swank Maeght gallery. This week the Paris show closed in a hurt hush. The critics had not been kind. Said the influential Arts: "Is this exhibition ... to show us that abstract painting is no longer a secret in the U.S.? This art form cannot surprise or shock us, for we are familiar with it, but it must have quality, which is certainly lacking. . . ." Added Les Lettres Françaises: "One could imagine that these painters had not even studied the original canvases but had contented themselves with examining reproductions...
...hardest hit lines were those which had overexpanded, eagerly gobbling up new routes and buying new planes. But even cautious lines like Pat Patterson's United had not been spared. In the first three months this year, United lost close to $3,000,000. That was a shock to the industry, for United has long been the bluest of its blue chips and it has shouldered the second heaviest domestic traffic burden. Its routes stretched 10,079 miles, including a Mexican subsidiary, Lamsa, second greatest on the continent (American is first); in 1946 United accounted for 18% of total...