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Touring Solomon. Dictator Ubico likes to parade around the country on "trips of inspection." With a military escort, a couple of Cabinet ministers, a mobile radio station and an official biographer, he tears along the roads at breakneck speed. Landowners greet him with floral arches, sometimes line up their Indian laborers days in advance to await his coming. During brief pauses in the villages, he judges intricate cases of law in a minute flat, fires judges, reverses court decisions, releases prisoners, slaps others in jail. Often he makes up his mind simply by staring at a prisoner. Over the portable...
Last April he found her-a young cellist with very little professional modeling experience and the kind of floral flesh Renoir liked to paint. Maine must still have been on his mind, for according to the model, he would paint pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...
Fred Papsdorf's painting is as unpretentious as his prose. He showed 27 canvases plainly close to his heart: My Father's Writing Table, Abie's Old Home, Weeds, Hills of Ohio. There were five gay, floral still lifes, four careful scenes of farm life, a depressing study of grimy Detroit houses, and one small, meticulously observed interior called Poverty. Commenting on Poverty for a prospective customer, Papsdorf once wired: "Years ago working for a life insurance company entered many homes mostly poor seeing them live thus hence Poverty...
Zoot Suit. A secret session of Indianapolis judges, called by Judge Emsley Johnson Jr., set aside a plea that they wear gay, floral-patterned robes...
...Holy Week began, Easter lilies were scarce in U.S. floral shops, as they were last year, but no more expensive ($7.50 to $12 a dozen, or $2.50 to $6 & up for a potted plant). U.S. horticulturists had barely begun to fill the demand left when bulb imports from Japan stopped...