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...like a coin for his inspection. Full of movement as a cinema is Oklahoma Land Rush (see cut), with its wheels carrying a circular motion clear across the canvas. On the light spring wagon Curry amused himself by lettering: Curry Wagon Works, Madison, Wis. Under the legend OKLAHOMA OR BUST, on the covered wagon, was the name Hal Ickes until friends of the Secretary of the Interior pointed out that no member of the Ickes family took part in the land rush, and Curry painted...
...veritable fury of destruction seized hold of me. Break it up! I wanted to shout. Smash away! Bust it to bits! Everything had gone red in front of my eyes. If I had had an axe or a lump of iron in my hand I should have hit out with it and smashed up myself and everyone else with the wild recklessness of a maniac...
...believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman, you'd better get out quick and sell him short. The same goes for Government officials...
None of this need worry depositors whose accounts are guaranteed by FDIC. But it is plenty to worry FDIC, which will have to make good future losses; something to worry the Government which is morally obligated to keep FDIC from ever going bust; something to worry business which has to support the Government...
Visitors to New York City this summer may banquet on fine art until they bust. The Metropolitan Museum has lavished its space, taste and scholarship on "Life in America" as artists have seen it through 200 years (TIME, May 8). The new, glassy Museum of Modern Art holds a festal exhibition of "Art in Our Time" (TIME, May 22). At the World of Tomorrow, 1,214 examples of "American Art Today" show contemporary ferment among U. S. artists; not far away are hung 400 serene successes by Old and still Older Masters (TIME, June 26). To assemble all this took...