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...once decided to paint Kiki, Queen of the Paris models, favorite of Artists Pascin, Kisling, Soutine. After meticulously arranging her pose and drapes, sitting at his easel, squinting at her, measuring her with his thumb, dabbing at his canvas so laboriously and long that Kiki was sure he had painted a good likeness, he declared his work done. Kiki ran around and looked at it. He had painted a great, bleak barn. "Perhaps," says catlike, sleek, sophisticated Kiki, "perhaps it was my farm-girl appearance...
...Anatol Shulkin, a pale, round-faced, baldish little professional known principally for his murals, had an exhibition of easel work at the Midtown Galleries just two years later than it had been scheduled. Reason: two summers ago his summer place in New Jersey burned to the ground and ten years' work burned with it. The Shulkin mettle was proved in several smooth, strong, pleasant figure compositions notable for harmonizing brilliant colors without making them yell...
...more than 150,000 projects up to Oct. 1, 1937. Visible to the naked eye were 11,106 new public buildings (including 115 new armories), 43,870 miles of new highways, 19,272 new bridges, more than 11,500 miles of new roadside drainage ditches and 54,244 drawings, easel paintings, murals and sculptured works. Not so obvious were 128,057,654 school lunches served, 18,272,529 books catalogued and 24,099,607 rodents destroyed...
While Adolf Hitler and Anthony Eden spent last week making history in Europe (see pp. 19, 22), Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced his own major problem,, Recession, by turning lecturer. Sitting in his office chair, directing a pointer at an easel covered with price charts, he expounded his Administration's theory of price trends: That some are too high, some too low and the U. S. will not have prosperity till they are balanced...
...event arrived, the press, 125 strong, trooped into the President's oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson was the reading aloud by the President of a statement prepared for Secretary...