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...newspaper unions dug deep into their treasuries. Eighty Portland locals put up $150,000 to buy and remodel an abandoned Wells Fargo stable; the hayloft still serves as the Reporter's city room. The International Typographical Union shipped sev eral carloads of equipment from Miami, including an ancient Hoe press that was dubbed "Little David," and leased the whole lot to the Reporter for a token $10 a year...
...feathery things are coming back,'' he said. "Privately, the big dealers are buying them up and salting them away." He looked over his own museum's Barbizon collection, decided that by adding paintings from local collectors (including Millet's once famous Man with a Hoe), he would have a strong start toward a major show. Howe took his idea to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, which also had a sizable Barbizon collection. Before long he had an imposing list of honorary sponsors, including French Culture Minister Andre Malraux and Sir Philip Hendy, director...
Turmoil & Calm. The Barbizon artist most misunderstood in later years was Jean François Millet, whose studies of peasants, notably The Angelus and The Man with a Hoe, splashed him with a reputation for sentimentality. Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature...
...bother, and it refused to move quickly to step up production to meet demand. In fact, Wilkinson's bosses make little secret of the fact that their primary interest is in promoting the steady sales of their high-priced garden tools-among them, the three-edged "swoe" (sword-hoe), which Wilkinson considers the first improvement on the hoe in 2,000 years. They bypassed U.S. drugstores with their, blades and gave them to hardware dealers who tried to lure garden-tool customers by offering them Super Swords as well...
Freeman realizes he has a tough row to hoe as Secretary of Agriculture, but he has no plans to back down from his bold programs. "I like to know where people stand and let 'em know where I stand." he says. "Pussyfooting around doesn't appeal to me." In recent weeks, Washington has been buzzing with rumors that if Freeman's grain program does not get through this year, he will be moved to another, less controversial Administration job. The White House flatly denies the gossip. Jack Kennedy likes Freeman as Secretary of Agriculture. "Besides," asks...