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Middlemen. House histrionics, the 1940 political situation, and the network of Washington intrigues meant little to one suffering group of U. S. citizens. All the shipping lines could see were the angular lines of the combat areas defined by the President, wherein no U. S. ship may deliver goods of any sort on penalty of $50,000 fine, five years in prison or both (see map). Through these forbidden seas lay the eight trade routes of 92 U. S. ships, with a Government investment of $195,061,000, an annual gross revenue of $52,500,000. There was plenty...
Centre of attraction at the Corcoran show were 48 prizewinners of the latest SFA competition, picked from 1,470 color sketches submitted anonymously to a jury of artists. Each of these will be painted as a post-office mural in a different State. Outstanding are Paul Sample's angular New England landscape (Westerly, R. I.), Charles W. Thwaites' wheat harvesters (Chilton, Wis.), William Calfee's fishermen drawing up their nets at dawn (Phoebus, Va.). Common denominator of the 48 is an attempt to say something definite about the U. S., past or present. Most interesting...
...Hobby Club of Bellingham, Wash, one day six years ago, a big, solidly built, well-dressed educator named Charles Henry Fisher suddenly remarked: "If I had money I would invest it in Soviet bonds. They are paying 7%." The manager of Bellingham's Herald, angular old Frank Sefrit, turned fierce eyes on him and barked: "That's the most radical statement I have ever heard made in this club:" Tapping the educator on the chest, he added ominously: "Fisher, I'm agin you and I hope you know what that means." By last week it meant...
...Author. Like Henry James and Proust, whose craftsmanship and insight she more simply recalls, tall, shy, angular, 39-year-old Elizabeth Bowen belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent...
...halting but hearty toast to that "dear octopus," the Family. 3) The nursery, full of memories, and the old teddy bear, now minus an arm. 4) The old nanny, who has been with the family 47 years. 5) The plump married daughter. 6) The slim single daughter. 7) The angular eccentric daughter. 8) The red-faced son-in-law, all teeth, plus fours and fatuousness. 9) The attractive unmarried son. 10) The mousy but pretty companion, in love with...