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...commonplaces. Because nine out of ten people want about as much exercise from painting as they want from a warm bath, neither artist was likely to become popular with the man-in-the-street. But it was extremely improbable that either would come in soon for such horseplay as Buffalo enjoyed last week with surrealism...
...coon's age had the Buffalo Society of Artists, Buffalo, N. Y., enjoyed itself so much as it did last week. In a basement room of the revered Albright Art Gallery were exhibited 40 works of peculiar art contrived by Society members to parody surrealism in particular and loony modernism in general-a "Faker Show" which owed much to the high spirits of versatile, 57-year-old Alexander Oscar Levy, onetime Society president. Parodies of surrealism are imperiled by an inevitable resemblance to surrealism itself. Buffalo objects with a triumphant element of wit included...
...raise $10,700,000 through sale of new stock and enter the medium-priced automotive field under the guidance of "a person of national importance." Last week it looked as though Jim Farley had been saved for the Cabinet, for Fierce-Arrow trustees and creditors sadly obtained from a Buffalo court an order for the company to show cause why it should not be declared insolvent...
...Army. The company was bought by Studebaker in 1928, in 1929 had net earnings of $2,566,112. Left a grass widow when Studebaker went into receivership, Fierce-Arrow lost $3,000,000 in 1932 in the face of Depression and better cheap cars. In 1933 a group of Buffalo businessmen paid $1,000,000 for the Pierce plant, tried a $2,300 car (previously Pierces cost as much as $6,400), then trailers. Last summer, when the reorganization scheme was cooked up, the company was at a standstill, with no cars on the line, 25 employes in the factory...
...struck about 30% more frequently than the five-year average. So far the epidemic has been confined to the South. The number of cases is about 10% more than last year when the epidemic spread up the Mississippi Valley to Chicago, across the Niagara frontier from Toronto to Buffalo...