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...flattish, quietly harmonious arrangement of ink lines, yet retain the emotive power of illustration. The observer automatically identifies himself with Maillol's figures; looking at the illustrations, he moves in a world he knows. Villon's new illustrations to the same cycle of poems (see below) employ color and perspective to create an even more recognizable, i.e., convincing, world...
...Russian press so bad? Answered Kommunist: "Most of the local papers use propaganda articles sent out by the press bureau in Moscow, and very few employ their own authors." Even when they do, the writers so closely ape Moscow that they write "like twins whom it is difficult to tell apart." The magazines are as bad as the newspapers. Most of them are "dull and featureless." Even the overriding concern of the Russian press with serving the party line fails, says Kommunist. "Propaganda articles are as a rule devoted to the past," and filled with official statistics and statements strung...
...demand for casual clothes has also become a mainstay of the vast and complex fashion business. It is a risky business, yet all over the nation upwards of 14,500 women's-apparel manufacturers are taking the risk. They employ 450,000 people and turn out $6 billion worth of goods a year. Of this total, Claire McCardell (through Townley Frocks, Inc.) accounts for only about $1,800,000 (plus $100,000 in royalties from such sidelines as sunglasses, gloves and jewelry). But she is one of the biggest names in the business...
...Hartford, Conn., United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney Division revealed that it would start work on its supersecret atomic plane-engine laboratory for the Air Force this July, and that it will cost $30 million. The laboratory, to be paid for by the Government, will be finished by 1957, employ between 2,000 and 3,000 workers, 8.5% of P. & W.'s total Hartford work force...
...resorting the use of atomic or hydrogen bombs on China's cities. Conventional military weapons could probably stop any attack on Formosa, in view of the evident Chinese weakness in sea-power. If the Communists launched a mass offensive in Korea, the United States might find it necessary to employ tactical atomic weapons. But there is an essential distinction between these tactical atomic weapons--such as artillery shells and airplane rockets--and large atomic and hydrogen bombs. Informed military men say that a defending force could use these tactical explosives in an actual fighting zone to break up an enemy...