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Disliked in his native Brazil because he insists on painting Negroes-who make up 30% of Brazil's population although most high-brow Brazilians like to ignore the fact-37-year-old Candido Portinari has had hard sledding in the salons of Rio de Janeiro. Second of twelve children in a family of impoverished Italian immigrant coffee workers, he got his first ideas about painting at the age of eleven, when a group of itinerant muralists did a job in the church of the little Sao Paulo town where he was born. They let him help mix their paints...
Sensational murders and scandalous divorce cases PM also avoids, but in spite of this fact, and of the group of intellectuals (Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, et. al.) who assisted at its birth. PM is no high-brow sheet. Publisher Ingersoll declares frankly that it is aimed at the masses and the low-income groups (incomes of $750 to $4,500 a year). For them he provides two pages a day devoted to labor news, union activities and unemployment, also bargains in food and clothing, cartoons by some leftist artists, drawings and photographs of garment workers, Negro scrubwomen, shirt...
Many things fill the mind, take the time of busy Mrs. Anna Thomsen Milburn of Seattle: gardening, charity work, symphonic music, society women's rights. Says Mrs. Milburn pungently: "Mentality is neither male nor female." But what makes Mrs. Milburn really furrow her brow is money...
Lean, twangy, Oklahoma-born Roy Harris, a sobersided, high-brow composer, has never been ranked as a popular song-maker. Last month, on the day that Italy struck at France and England, Composer Harris sat thoughtfully down to some verses he had written. Four days later he finished a song for baritone and a choral setting, with an orchestral accompaniment full of plangent brasses and surging strings of the Preamble to the Constitution...
Richard Aldington: "It is typical high-brow delusion to suppose that authors influence anyone but the intellectuals and that intellectuals count for anything in the formation of national policy and the state of the mass mind. Most people in America have never heard of the writers MacLeish mentions and could not have been influenced by them. Most intellectuals make rotten soldiers anyway, so their defection is of small importance - supposing the defection exists...