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...Buckminster Fuller and Boris Artzybasheff. "I can't remember when I enjoyed working on a TIME cover more," said Artist Artzybasheff, after he had finished painting Designer Fuller with a background that includes Fuller's radome, Dymaxion Car, tensegrity octahedron, an example of energetic-synergetic geometry, the 4D apartment house, a Dymaxion mobile laboratory, a demonstration of the omniequilateral, omnitriangulated finite system, and the 15 axes interconnecting opposite mid-points of the icosahedron's 30 edges. But all this, being very Artzybasheffesque, was topped by the opportunity to do Fuller's head in the pattern...
...This "4D House," as he called it, was the launching of the new Bucky Fuller. Though it only existed as a scale model (in which he included a tiny nude doll lying on a bed for verisimilitude and headline-catching purposes), and though it called for alloys, plastics, photoelectric cells and the like, which did not then exist, newspapers wrote it up, and the Marshall Field department store contracted for its display, to go with some daringly "modern" furniture just imported from France. Fuller's 4D (for Fourth Dimension) title for the house seemed drab to the promotion-minded...
Nationwide regulations now provide a maximum ten-day farmwork "holiday" for children 12 to 14, with special provisions for subsequent half-school, half-work days. Pay for farm-handing during this so-called holiday is set at 4d (8?) to 8d an hour for boys, slightly less for girls. Slightly higher scales prevail for older boys already working on the land as Young Farmers and in summer hostels...
...Phil. 4d and 5 are frequently taken by Government majors. In the first you read such men as the Russian revolutionaries, Spencer and Tolstoy. Lewis gives you some good ideas, but on the whole the course is not well organized and not what it should be. In the second, Hocking, as always, gives his own point of view...
...London press still printed cheery little notes from city children evacuated to the countryside. A small boy wrote: "Dear Mum and Dad, please send Colin and me some more trousers. We have been blackberrying. I have scores of mosketoe bites. P.S.-Please send some more muney. I have 4d. and Colin only has 2d." A small girl: "The lady's little girl is three weeks older than me, but I'm bigger. ... She says I talk funny. I told her I'm a Cockerney. Her uncle is a sailor too. Tell Dad to look...