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...week. Art dealers racked their memory, decided that it was Emanuel something, probably Raveninsky. As Man Ray he has been known since he came from Philadelphia over 20 years ago. His first exhibition of paintings was held at the Daniel Gallery in 1915. At that time he was an ardent cubist and bewildered conservative critics with his angularities. In 1921 he went to Paris, where he has remained. He gave up Cubism for Dadaism, Dadaism for Surrealism, finally gave up painting almost entirely for photography. His Surrealist shots of bits of landscape, nudes, egg beaters and pieces of wire have...
Officials of the Lampoon, humorous college magazine, when reached last night, expressed an ardent desire to communicate with those who stole Arthur the Seagull and the sacred alligator. "We wish that someone would give us the bird, and will ask no questions" sums up the attitude of the funsters. In addition a ransom of $50 will be paid for the return of the goods, according to one of the editors of the publication. Theories have been advanced by those who urge a thorough search of the east wing of Peabody Museum, where it was felt that the alligator might turn...
...Missouri prepared to send a Wet pro-Hoover delegation to the National Convention and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, ardent Dry Methodist though he is, acquiesced...
...wheel turned up his design. Ardent disciples of what is called the International Style sniffed at drawings of his design, called it "fake modernism." But the Hamilton design by no means represents what the completed palace will actually look like. Two Russians, B. M. Yofan and I. V. Zholtovsky, share first prize with Mr. Hamilton. Second prize went to the U. S. firm of Kastnor & Storonoff, both members of which have already won awards in a Soviet architectural competition. The Moscow idea is that all these men. and possibly 20 or 30 of the other competitors, will assemble in Moscow...
...eight. He did not say when these orders would be filled but stated production would "probably begin next week" and "before very long we expect to be making 5,000 to 6,000 cars a day." He said the cars would be ready now except that some ardent workers had worked on Sunday and the rest of the following week had been spent correcting their errors...