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Last week in Manhattan an art organization founded by rebels held one of the most conservative shows of the season. The occasion: the 52nd annual exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists. On view in spacious 57th Street galleries were art forms ranging from garden sculpture to decorative embroidery, woodcut print to oil painting. Most popular subjects: flowers, children, landscape views, sculptured nudes...
Last week ICC proposed to do something about the worst ailment that, throughout the depression, made U.S. railroads one of the sickest of sick industries. When business fell off, many a road collapsed under the monstrous overload of fixed charges represented by interest on its bonded debt. In its 57th annual report to Congress, ICC hinted that it may soon ask for legislation to convert all railroad fixed-or contingent-interest mortgage bonds into income bonds when earnings slump. Thus bondholders, like stockholders, would be paid only when earnings warranted, and the carriers would not be dragged into bankruptcy courts...
...another violent battle in a continuous, violent war. The impression was exaggerated: the battle of Changteh was violent enough, but it was an interlude in an essentially unviolent war. As in previous foraging expeditions, the Japs had pushed into the Tungting Lake rice bowl of central China. The Chinese 57th Division fought with hand grenades and bayonets until only 300 were left, then escaped from the stricken city...
...raid on Wiener-Neustadt climaxed a week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...torn pages from the diary of the famed Chicago-born Paris dress designer Mainbocher, whose salon is now located on Manhattan's 57th Street, were published last week in the New York Herald Tribune. Excerpts...