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Compared to most novels, Blessed Are the Meek is in fact much like a tapestry set against easel pictures. It is not realistic in its drawing; except in a formal sense it is not dramatic or emotional. It gets its effect as a decorative spectacle of strange times and strange places when men were more brutal and unprincipled than they are today, and at the same time more intimately aware of God. As such, it carries its own peculiar kind of conviction, especially in its engaging central figure, whom Author Kossak draws as gay, fey and disconcertingly sincere...
...performance will be recognized as "one of the best jobs done during the war." He proceeded to prove it by not droning statistics, or by making belligerent assertions, but with a series of 106 big (2 by 3 ft.), easy-to-read charts, mounted on a 7-ft. easel and shifted by a clerk as Chester Bowles made the accompanying narration. Main theme: thanks to OPA, the U.S. has come off quite well in World War II as compared with World War I. Example: after 53 months of War I, the cost of living had risen 65%; after 53 months...
...Artist. Gladys Rockmore Davis, 43, is the ten-year wonder of U.S. art. It took her just that long to paint her way from a fashion illustrator to a top-flight easel painter with a reputation as "one of the very few American women artists who can paint a nude that does not resemble a Bonwit Teller manikin...
When not watching the ballet, Painter Davis works five hours a day at her easel, sometimes seven days a week. She lives in a big apartment near the East River end of Manhattan's 86th Street, with her husband, top-notch Magazine Illustrator (now War Correspondent) Floyd Davis, their two children and a dachshund named Nietzsche...
...clammy catacombs of a U.S. Government warehouse in Flushing, N.Y. sheltered, last year, bales and bales of old painters' canvas. One day, following an elaborate sheaf of official orders, a truck backed up to the warehouse, carted off the canvases to Manhattan. There were several thousand earnest easel paintings which WPA had somehow deemed "unallocatable." Dr. Win-the-War's Government had decided to liquidate the last traces of Dr. New Deal's great WPArt Project. *The bales of paintings jiggling on the truck were sold for junk...