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Evidence from Ontario. Mackenzie King had good reason to blanch at the prospect of an election. August's Provincial election in pivotal Ontario had given the Progressive Conservatives 38 Parliament seats, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (whose backbone is organized Labor) 34, against 14 for Mackenzie King's Liberal Party...
...against the Crusader Yearlings will begin at the same time but will be run over a two and seven-tenths mile route around the horse track. Coach Bill Neufeld's entries will be Russ Farrington, Dick Bryan, Ed French, Nans Hachman, Milton Hughes, Jim McCulloch, Hugh McCaffrey, John Shea, Blanch Lyon, and Max Pincus...
Today Reeves Lewenthal's Associated American Artists' Galleries has a roster of 43 U.S. artists, including such top-flighters as Thomas Benton, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, Georges Schreiber, Max Weber, Adolf Dehn, Ernest Fiene, Arnold Blanch, Raphael Soyer, sells everything from $2 Christmas cards to $12,000 paintings. Its staff of 43 clerical workers sends out some 3,000,000 pieces of mail a year, helps handle the throng of artists (as many as 80 a week) who want a place on Lewenthal's roster...
Born 43 years ago in the little town of Mantorville, Minn., grey-thatched Arnold Blanch started his career by scrawling on the walls of Midwestern privies. His first ideas of painting he got from a maiden aunt who painted flowers on china. When he was about 16 his family moved to Minneapolis, where, inspired by the sight of students drawing Greek casts in the public library, he decided to study art. After four years of cast-copying and life classes, he got a scholarship at Manhattan's Art Students' League, where he studied under oldtime U. S. Realist...
Today, Arnold Blanch is one of the few U. S. artists who manage to live almost entirely on the sale of their work. At his home in Woodstock, N.Y., he hunts and fishes, now for sport, once for food. Years ago he earned a little extra money by weaving rugs and tapestries, briefly running a cafeteria at Woodstock's art colony. He has taught in such noted institutions as the California School of Fine Arts, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Manhattan's Art Students' League. But he quits these jobs as soon as he saves enough...