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...work, describing her as "a 'natural'; she puts things down on canvas with unhesitating directness, as if reality guided her brush. But her realism is never merely photographic. Sometimes her patterns take on an expressionistic freedom, with pronounced rhythms, suggesting Van Gogh-or, nearer home, Marsden Hartley. But such parallels, probably coincidental, do not affect the authentic originality...
Piling relentlessly up throughout 1957, such problems threaten a historic change in the political climate in which organized labor lives and breathes. Just four years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this...
...flunkeys dealt out some 2,000 plastic raincoats he had bought ("The goddamn rain flowed like champagne," the great man growled), while Aly Khan and his great and good friend, French Model Bettina, cavorted on the carousel, U.S. Ambassador Jock Whitney sloshed into a mud puddle, and Sir Hartley Shawcross, onetime British attorney general, navigated a rumba. Mike missed no chance to brandish the pregnancy of his third wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor. Item: at the première, piqued when distinguished guests were tardy, Todd rushed his wife to a chair, crying for all to hear: "What would...
...Urged Taft-Hartley Act amendments to ban the union shop and make unions subject to antitrust laws-changes that Labor Secretary James Mitchell has plainly and publicly opposed...
Clinton E. Jencks, Southwestern official of the Red-led Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, would probably be surprised if anyone seriously accused him of being a nonCommunist. But in 1950 Jencks signed a non-Communist affidavit under the Taft-Hartley law-and was duly indicted in El Paso, convicted of perjury and sentenced to five years in prison. Last week the Supreme Court granted a new trial to Defendant Jencks, and in so doing knocked over applecarts all across the U.S. security scene...