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...Bauhaus, Gropius gathered a brilliant group of teachers and students to apply his ideas. Marcel Breuer invented the first tubular steel chair. Bogler and Lindig designed pottery for mass production. Josef Albers turned broken bottles into stained-glass windows, and his wife Anni developed new techniques and textures for fabric weaving. Bayer and Moholy-Nagy experimented with typography and abstract photography, Oskar Schlemmer and Xanti Schawinsky produced abstract stage sets. Painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger stuck mainly to painting...
...with a relaxed but rollicking bounce, his right hand dallying attractively behind the foot-tapping beat of his left. Other times he just gets slow and dreamy, playing around the melody a lot of quiet chords that have just enough bite to keep the customers awake; but this harmonic fabric makes many another jazz thumper sound either flat or fussy. Says he: "I just play what I feel. Suddenly I hit a groove that moves me, and then I take off. I don't worry about how it'll come...
Back in 1940, Lewenthal persuaded Grant Wood to translate his famed Midnight Ride of Paul Revere into a fabric pattern-but no manufacturer would buy it. Last year Lewenthal tried again, and got Manhattan's huge Riverdale fabric company to print not only Midnight Ride but designs by seven other painters too. Four are reproduced on the opposite page...
...style roller was hardly an improvement on the brush; it still had to be dipped in a pan, would drip paint. The newer rollers, made by Cleveland's Kenwill Corp. and others, hold the paint inside the cylinder, let it out through holes onto a rubber or fabric sleeve so that it can be rolled on walls or ceilings without dripping. Even the big brush makers like Rubberset Co. are beginning to sell rollers. But brush makers are not giving up the battle. Sears, Roebuck recently began selling a brand-new 4-in. wall brush that can be broken...
...continuity of British life, in the strength of the fabric of its body politic-of so much sterner stuff, despite all buffetings, than that of any other European nation-in its fidelity to the old standards, combined with its curiosity about new horizons-in all these things there is evidence that the feelings of men like Eccles and Lloyd are shared by the great majority of Britons. How far they are shared, the poll next week will show...