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...Bestsellers. Of the serious paintings in reproduction, those by Van Gogh. Renoir. Cezanne and Degas have long been the bestsellers. Van Gogh's popularity is based on relatively few pictures -the more decorative and least emo tional of his canvases. His View at La Craii, also known as Vegetable Garden (opposite), is a consistent favorite, and calm as Cream of Wheat. Edging the leaders in popularity are Picasso and Cubist Georges Braque. The still lifes which Braque specializes in are nothing if not decorative, and their complexity helps offset the chill nakedness of many modern interiors...
...costumes are by Cecil Beaton, who evidently lost his heart but not his wits in somebody's attic. The characters, their plight, their lines, their postures and emo tional attitudes are as exquisitely stylized as classical ballet...
Shark-mouthed Publisher Frank Gan nett and carp-eyed Publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick share two fierce emo tions : hatred of Franklin Roosevelt, a conviction that New Deal "bungling" in agriculture will cause starvation in the U.S. Last week, in Bertie McCormick's Chicago bailiwick, the two joined in an emotional spree, airing their fears in a joyous catharsis of rich gloom...
...over the rail and offered his hand. Mr. Fitzgerald seized it, shook it, mounted the platform, shook hands again. He began a speech, shook hands again. He continued speaking, shook hands again. He finished speaking, shook hands again. Mr. Fitzgerald then sang "Sweet Adeline" as he always does at emo- tional moments. Mr. Curley applauded. They shook hands (sixth time), for the cameras, and Boston's Democracy was lapped in perfect bliss for the first time since last spring...
...next train to Baccarat. "Why go there?" he was asked. "I was nursed," he answered, "by a poor French family there, and I've got 10,000 francs for them, and can't wait to get it into their hands." Other stories described the emo tional reunions of French mothers with daughters and sons-in-law who had made them grandmothers of small Americans up to ten years...