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Your June 24 article on road builders is a marvel of reporting, and the six pages in color are masterpieces which merit the heading "American Art." To make space for them in your Art section, you could have moved Gauguin's Still Life with Apples (a $297,000 gyp) into Business...
...from the swing-boats, or grow dizzy and faint as we ride the galloping, scarlet and gold clad roundabout horses, or fail to win a thing at any of the booths . . ." The booth marked "Modern English Theatre," O'Casey seems to believe, is rigged by a bunch of gyp-artists. First off, there are the critics, "death-or-drivel boys gunning with their gab from their pillboxes . . . those who take a step forward to enthrone imagination in the theatre and make it more of a temple and less of a den of thieves." Actors are bad actors: "They talk...
Circulation v. Implication. Magazines that have accepted the ads, said Father Graf, "will corrupt the minds of our youth." He called the puzzles "gyp lotteries," reminded the A.C.U. that the House of Bishops opposes bingo and other gambling. Furthermore, he implied, the whole business was unsound: "If less than $315,000 is grossed," he said, "then the A.C.U. will receive not one cent. How in conscience can a church organization take such a gamble with its reputation and its contributors' money...
Greek-born Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, 48, who is under indictment on a charge of conspiring to gyp the U.S. in some postwar deals to buy surplus ships (TIME, Feb. 15), waited for delivery of one of the fanciest yachts to sail since Financier J. P. Morgan's Corsair churned the seagoing carriage-trade routes. In the North German port of Kiel, a 325-ft. frigate is being converted into the Christina, a floating pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost...
...story abandoned waterfront warehouse, climbed a six-foot metal fence, had a scuffle with a Doberman pinscher (which bit two of them), broke down three doors, and found a still which cost $50,000 to build. It could turn out 2,500 gallons of alcohol and gyp the Government of $50,000 in alcohol taxes every day. The agents arrested two men hiding behind the coils, started looking for the building's owner. A sign on a gate leading to the warehouse said: "Property of the City of New York...