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...profit. But "loss leaders" become a large hole in the profit bucket when customers throng a store to buy only the "loss leader" and nothing else. Forcefully last week was this axiom brought home to scores of cut-rate storekeepers in Los Angeles, home of some of the fiercest price wars...
...everyone else had more fun when he criticized other people's paintings (Ananias or the False Artist, The Masters of Modern Art, An Hour of Art). A little, well-liked man muffling a torrent of talk in a brown torrent of mustache, he has never flinched, after his fiercest attacks on other men's works of art, from putting his own on view. Last week he did it again, at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, his first exhibition since...
...vociferous strangeness attracted a few disciples at Cambridge. When he went to the U. S. in 1905 and began to lecture, he found his metier: "Yes, the platform has been everything to me. It has been the bed of my erotic joys. It has been the battlefield of my fiercest struggles. It has been the gibbet of my execution. It has been the post of my scourging. It has been my throne. It has been my close-stool. It has been my grave. It has been my resurrection. On the platform I have expressed by a whisper, by a silence...
...Marquis has endeared himself to the U. S. by padding his critical punches; his fiercest uppercuts are the merest invigorating taps on a cheerfully welcoming chin. Many a critical reader of Chapters for the Orthodox will get no farther than Author Marquis's prefacing remarks, in which he dedicates his book to wambling Christopher Morley (because "I think you write better than anyone else writing in the English-speaking world today"). Less captious searchers will find something to hit their fancy in the twelve rambling tales that follow. Some of them...
There was, as usual, a fine ring of righteousness in the General's words but little enlightenment for the country at large as to one of the fiercest, fieriest backstage fights of the New Deal. All Washington knew that a mighty tussle was in progress over the future of NRA. Newshawks got circumstantial glimpses of the contest?a second-hand piece of gossip here, an angry word by way of confirmation there...