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Snooty critics are accustomed to laugh out loud at the work of aged Artist Waugh: 1) because it is limited almost entirely to realistic paintings of surf, and 2) because his surf pictures are "all alike." Although Artist Waugh paints the sea as it looks from not greatly dissimilar rocks near his Cape Cod home, sympathetic critics find his paintings no more nor less alike than the inexhaustible aspects of ocean water. In eschewing all human subjects for the sea, F. J. Waugh is actually akin to abstractionists like Georges Braque, winner of the Carnegie first prize this year (TIME...
...situation today is not dissimilar. First it was Russia,--and the repercussions of the Bolshevik revolution are with us yet. Then it was the failure of parliamentary government to maintain itself in Italy. Next came the advent of the Nazi regime in Germany, and now we witness actual warfare with all its barbarism in Spain. Finally we have seen the hopes of peace through collective security appear to fade and now the threat of rearmament hangs over all of Europe. There have been problems and disturbances of our own, of course,--problems grave enough to produce a tension...
Films & Jellies. Dr. Langmuir held the chemists spellbound when he recounted his tricks with "monofilms''-layers of matter only one molecule thick. Certain oils, fats and proteins will spread out in monofilms on water whose surface has been scraped clean. The molecules have dissimilar ends, "heads" and "tails." Some years ago Dr. Langmuir found that in a monofilm on water, the heads all pointed up, the tails down. Such films resemble crystals in that their structure and dimensions can be learned from their behavior under X-rays and polarized light...
...Basil James, with 239 winners through last week. Leading trainer was the onetime pigeon fancier, Hirsch Jacobs (TIME, Oct. 26), with 173 winners. Leading horse of the year was Granville, who won $110,000. And the most extraordinary records of the racing year were those of two utterly dissimilar race horse owners. One was 24-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The other was Sangreal's owner, Mrs. Ethel Mars, whose failure to win last week did nothing to impair her standing as far & away the most successful owner of the year...
...tends to cast too commercial a pallor over something that should be free from the money taint. Adams swings to the other extreme in demanding the presentation of a card, obtainable at a set price, for the use of the library and common room. In short, these houses offer dissimilar and often impractical ways and means for levying the annual tribute...