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Last fortnight LIFE and the famed Cranbrook art centre at Bloomfield Hills, Mich. put on an art show. LIFE and Cranbrook invited a gilt-edged jury of U. S. critics to choose 60 leading contemporary U. S. artists, then to pick one picture by each of the 60. Some of these canvases had been previously shown in public; all (like Speicher's Alicia, see cut) were typical of the artist's best work, thus represented the fresh cream of U. S. painting...
...most busy but unoriginal literary minds he has an aptitude for quoting his superiors; Shaw, Valery and Stendhal say the best things in his book. Maurois's ability to make sentences bow from the waist, his flair for "gallic" phrasing of sincere platitudes transform the "golden mean" into gilt-edged mediocrity...
...recent months Sir John has moved adroitly to compel British investors to lend to the Exchequer eagerly and cheaply. Restrictions were imposed against new private and municipal bond issues, thus leaving the British bond buyer hungry. Last month His Majesty's Government requisitioned a list of 60 gilt-edged U. S. securities held by residents of the United Kingdom (TIME, March 4). Last week the Britons from whom these dollar securities were taken received first payment for them from the Treasury in pounds. They no sooner had these pounds in hand than Sir John popped up in the House...
...Roosevelt drought, went crazy over this sign of rain. They were comparatively unexcited by another Ohio G. O. P. victory, the expected 2-to-1 election of plutocratic Frances Payne Bingham Bolton* of Cleveland to succeed her late husband, Chester C. Bolton. Sharp-witted Mrs. Bolton was a gilt-edged financial asset, but Coshocton Contractor McGregor was a real homespun portent...
...practical were now willing to take a few theories. The scent of battle, and not a hopeless battle, brought Republicans together in Washington last week. To them the New Deal Administration was like an overfat, overspread empire, whose sentinels are asleep, whose palaces are termite-rotten under the gilt. The hungry guerrillas peered at Glenn Frank's battle-chart and sniffed...