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...time he goes to Oxford, in the early 1930s, to polish off his Canadian education, Francis has been honed into a practical, tightfisted young man who is also a thoroughgoing romantic about art. He meets Tancred Saraceni, the world's foremost restorer of old masterpieces, and confesses a secret desire to become a painter himself. The trouble is, Francis adds, he does not find the methods of any contemporary artists compatible. Saraceni replies: "Don't try to fake the modern manner if it isn't right for you. Find your legend. Find your personal myth...
DIED. Joseph ("Big Joe") Turner, 74, Kansas City, Mo.-born blues "shouter" of huge girth (300 lbs.) and voice, whose long career and 200 record albums reflected black music's migration into cities in the 1930s, its influence on jazz in the '40s and its transformation into rhythm and blues in the '50s; of kidney failure; in Inglewood, Calif. Several of his biggest hits, including Chains of Love (1951), Sweet Sixteen (1952) and, most memorably, Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954), later became rock-'n'-roll classics after being bowdlerized by such white artists as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley...
While most American farmers are suffering the effects of the worst a agricultural depression since the 1930s, the catfish farmers in Humphreys County, Miss., are content and prosperous. That is because the catfish business is booming. Mississippi accounts for some 80% of the nation's crop, and Humphreys County is the catfish capital. This year an estimated 185 million lbs. of catfish will be processed, more than four times the 1980 level. The commercial value of the crop is about $255 million...
...skylines could talk, Shanghai's would echo that judgment. While Peking and Canton boast modern hotels and office towers, Shanghai looks frozen in time, a black-and-white photograph from the 1930s. The buildings along the Bund that housed the great British trading firms and banks before the 1949 Communist take-over still stand, but now they are sooty and decrepit, ghosts from another...
...raise funds for many of its ventures, CITIC often turns to foreign capital markets. It has already sold bonds in Hong Kong, Japan and West Germany. China is, however, still locked out of American capital markets because it stopped paying interest on an issue of railroad bonds in the 1930s...