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Vienna's tiny Neue Galerie was bright last week with crude, cheery pictures of U.S. farm life, New York State style. The paintings were the work of 89-year-old "Primitive" Grandma Moses, making her first appearance before a European audience. Judging by her reception in Vienna, Grandma Moses' grand tour through The Hague, Berne, and Paris will be something of a triumph...
...proud ones like Wing On, Sincere, Sun Sun and the Sun-are plastered with posters which shout: 'We Reduce Prices with Pain!', 'Shop Closing Down', 'Prices Falling Below Cost' . . . Swank stores now offer such unglamorous goods as salted fish, seaweed, salt and crude cooking...
Posterity, ever since Composer Schumann's day, has been listening to the huge resounding and romantic symphonies of Hector Berlioz, and trying to decide just how good "this Frenchman" was. Today 81 years after his death, detractors of Berlioz still scorn him as a crude noisemaker who marshaled whole regiments of instruments and singers to gain his fantastically emotional effects, although most of them will grudgingly admit that he contributed some new colors to the palette of orchestration. His fervent admirers, even those who are troubled at the ease with which he passes from the sublime to the banal...
...crude bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rush jobs intended to be carried in a B29. There was little reason to keep their weight down, since the B-29s of the time could carry 20,000 lbs. from Saipan to the target. Long after Nagasaki, the weight of the first bombs leaked out. It was about...
...deal gives Standard a nicely rounded program in Italy. The refineries will buy crude from Standard's Near East fields (thus saving Italy $4,200,000 annually in dollar imports), will sell refined products to SIAP (Standard-Italo Americana Petroli), Standard's Italian marketing subsidiary. Standard would also like to drill for oil in the Po Valley, where government-subsidized explorations have already struck a rich supply of methane gas. But Standard has run afoul of the old Italian law, which gives the government absolute title to all oil and minerals discovered beneath the surface of the earth...