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Death Agony. But if art for art's sake triumphed in Whistler v. Ruskin, it came a cropper in the private lives of most of its British disciples. Unlike their more adaptable, more original French contemporaries, who made Paris the authentic, though wicked, art center of the world, the Britons founded no school. They simply faded out in the squalid romanticism of the "Naughty Nineties." Oscar Wilde's brilliant career came to a catastrophic end in the world's most sensational vice trial. Poet Francis Thompson, an opium addict, was reduced to destitution, and died leaving behind...
...Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art," distributed $2,400 in prizes. As usual, portraits of pearl-bearing dowagers vied for space with well-bred views of picturesque squalor. As usual, the show was judiciously peppered with a few works by well-established modernists (Philip Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour, a tangle of plausible roses, lilies, pansies, baby's breath and almost edible cupids. Another notable prizewinner: Grappling the Lost Anchor, by famed Illustrator Harrison ("Peter Rabbit") Cady. Net impression on most visitors: more...
...Cropper for Frazer. The jeep helped tug Willys into the profit column in '41 for the first time in four years. With 70% of its dollar volume in jeeps in '42, Willys totted up $1,265,399 in net profits, boosted its net to $1,347,949 for the fiscal six months ending last March...
With an eye on the postwar world (and the jeep-conscious soldiers who will buy cars) Joe Frazer had tried-by splashy ads-to make Willys and jeep synonymous. For the first time on his jeep joy ride, Joe Frazer came a cropper. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Willys. (The complainant was not revealed, but the complaint alleged that the jeep idea was originated by the American Bantam Car Co.) Willys was charged with misrepresentation in claiming that it created and perfected the jeep, in cooperation with the Quartermaster Corps...
...Angeles, the 80-ft. cable railway which had carried hundreds of passengers a day up steep East Bunker Hill ever since 1904 finally came a cropper to priorities on repairs and manpower...