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...some professionals, others doctors, lawyers, tinsmiths, truck drivers, laundry salesmen, coal miners, janitors, had sent 857 paintings, sculptures and ceramics. Most of the stuff was terrible. But all of it was displayed. For the Society of Independent Artists has no jury, believes that any U.S. artist who can fork up $5 to pay for expenses ought to have a chance to show his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Bolsheviks | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Under a brilliant moon the desert looked like a plain of salt. Across it three British staff cars sped. At a fork in the road a sentry stopped them and signaled the drivers to turn off onto a small side road. The drivers told the sentry who were in the cars-two generals and their staffs. The sentry said he was sorry, but the main road ahead was being prepared for demolition in connection with withdrawal operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATER: The Other Way in Libya | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...wires and mechanisms." By last week Sponsor Crosby had had a grand piano hauled into the middle of the lake, where it was expected shortly to sprout water lilies, and Painter Dali had dunked a manikin near the shore and was trying to ornament her face with a fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Enchanted Garden | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...with thinning grey hair and bushy black eyebrows, wandering dazedly. On his cuffs and under his fingernails were bloodstains. In the bedroom lay the body of his wife, her head bashed in and innumerable stab wounds in her body. They also found a hammer, poker and large carving fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Phonetic Murder | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...soon as Rancher Gill had been massaged, yanked and kneaded into some semblance of muscular control, had learned all over again how to wash his face, tie his tie, handle a knife & fork, he headed for his ranch in the Amazon jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Precious Poison | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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