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...Snipes (3,700 registered boats, mostly in the U. S.), the little Comets-fast, sensitive and priced at $300-have multiplied like rabbits in the past five years. Today the Comet Class has 1,500 registered boats, shows promise of zooming to the top of the small-boat heap before its tenth birthday...
...three years, with the collaboration of the Associated American Artists, Art Critic Thomas Craven has been sorting 2,500 U. S. lithographs and etchings into a big heap of rejections, a little heap of selections. His little heap appeared last week as a book* containing 100 (10 in. by 13 in.) black & white prints by such top-flight U. S. artists as Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, Boardman Robinson, John Sloan, Grant Wood, for the first time brought together the most significant black-&-whites by outstanding U. S. artists in a handy, inexpensive form. Thoughtfully, the publishers perforated the binding...
There is little midnight sun or everlasting snow in Author Victor's account, but there are unforgettable scenes of greed, filth, and foul food. Sample: "Behind the hut there was an enormous heap of seal's fat which had been left untouched for years, and was now transformed into a kind of yellowish rock which exuded rivulets of pus that reflected the sunlight. The birds which alighted on it lost, first their feathers and then their lives. . . . In this sticky, slimy mass, Yosepi, Gaba, Kriwi, Doumidia and I floundered about with shouts of laughter. We gathered handfuls...
...half-size picture paper, was selling nearly 1,000,000 copies daily. Northcliffe suggested that he try out the tabloid idea in the U. S. Captain Patterson met Colonel McCormick somewhere behind the lines; they dined with some other officers, then stepped outside and seated themselves on the dung heap...
...Heap big eyewash as cinema entertainment, the possible influence on U. S. young of Susannah of the Mounties is not to be taken lightly. In Susannah Shirley smokes. She enjoys her first whiff of the weed with a young Indian hostage called Little Chief (Martin Good Rider), passing back & forth a small but sure-enough pipe of peace. Whatever the effect of this may be on the behavior of Shirley's moppet public, its effect on Shirley is to make her act sick. The effect on stolid, 13-year-old Martin Good Rider is imperceptible. A Blackfoot Indian...