Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither hot, arty nor unshorn, TIME holds no brief for crazy quilt paintings but stands by its estimate of Carnegie Prizewinner Georges Braque's The Yellow Cloth as a successful abstraction, for reasons given in its report on the Carnegie show (TIME, Oct. 25). Chances are that Leonardo da Vinci would shrug, smile, disagree with Reader Sullivan...
...capsized it within 150 feet, drowned Able Seaman Howell Gill of Savannah, Ga. On the return trip the Algic again put in at Jacksonville and there Stormy Petrel J. Hartley deserted and escaped. Last week the Algic docked in Baltimore, its 13,000 harassed miles the subject of a brief inquiry by the Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. A three-man board swiftly passed the case on to the Department of Justice, which held 14 members of the crew for "revolt and mutiny...
...cracker to last week's decree was a brief paragraph empowering Francisco Franco personally to name his own successor as Dictator of Rightist Spain...
...Recording Co., which had made and sold some left-wing "workers' songs." For his musical adviser and program annotator. Insurance Man Waldman signed up William Kozlenko, music critic and editor of One-Act Play Magazine. Timely's first offering, out last week, proved a notable find-eight brief symphonies by an almost-forgotten British composer named William Boyce...
...Washington. Some 50 blue-&-gold Palace Laundries ("Long Live Linen'') on Washington street corners wash enough of Washington's starched shirts and white collars to supply Mr. Marshall with money for his sporting activities and his spectacular private life. For a brief blazing period he was publisher of Hearst's Washington Times. Even before that, he was taken up by amused Washington socialites to whom on every social occasion he recalled the fact that he did their laundry...