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...subjects which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those relics of juvenile schooling ought long ago to have been relegated to the limbo of the birch...
...Miah had placed the initials P. W. A. after his name. Everyone wanted to know the identity of the ungrateful artist who could accept the New Deal's relief money with one hand while burlesquing it with the other. Crowds jammed the hall. Pink with excitement, President Charles Arthur Birch-Field of the West-Chester Institute had the Nightmare placed on a separate wall and charged 25¢ admission to see it. From Wall Street somebody telephoned in to offer $3,000 for the picture to present to the Library of Congress. A man named Goldberg would...
...this time Artist Jere Miah II refused to let his name be known, but emitted a series of pronouncements through President Birch-Field of the gallery. Most important was the fact that he had never been on the PWA rolls. The initials after his name, he said, meant "Poor White Artist." The only hint of his identity was a report that the artist was comparatively unknown, 35, tall, blond, separated from his wife and disgusted with the New Deal...
...picture. Suddenly he pulled a bottle of paint-remover from his pocket, splashed it over the canvas, yanked the caricature from the wall, touched a match to it. The flames flickered out quickly, but the picture was ruined. Housewives fled screaming. John Smiukse was instantly arrested. While Mr. Birch-Field and Jere Miah II conferred whether to make the charge arson or malicious mischief, reporters found John Smiukse in the Tarrytown police station...
Last week when the peasants heard the child screaming in the birch forest they paused in fright for a moment, then rushed bravely to the rescue. And they caught the vampire, a wild-eyed, tattered boy stabbing wildly at a little girl...