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...President moved fast and consistently. In the midst of exchanging apparently casual repartee with a press conference last week, he slipped over a blue-ink-typewritten memo from Missy LeHand. announced the revival, under the 1916 National Defense Act, of a Council of National Defense-six Cabinet members and seven coordinators to organize the still shadowy effort to arm the country...
...York's Thomas E. Dewey. Winks went around: "He looks good now, but wait till the experts work out on him." Last week two experts got to work on young Mr. Dewey. In the New Yorker, mordant Wolcott Gibbs, who believes in mixing plenty of gall with his ink, profiled Mr. Dewey enthusiastically in an article that read like a long, catlike scratch. Mr. Gibbs on Mr. Dewey...
Ever since the age of 14, when he discovered black drawing ink in the artist's materials section of a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, stocky, Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn has drawn, etched and lithographed in black. A specialist in bulging bankers and pneumatic nuns, Dehn went to Manhattan in 1916, got odd jobs drawing for the old Liberator, drifted off to Europe for a spell, soon made himself a reputation as one of the ablest and most individual black-&-white men in the U. S. Half straight, half comic, Dehn's squirming, salty lithographs were prized by art connoisseurs...
Last week the judges announced the winners: a squirming pen-and-ink satire on Picassomania, by Adolf Dehn; a crowd of bereaved workers' wives, by Georges Schreiber; a suicide, by Anton Refregier; a murder, by Fred Ellis; a death in the Dustbowl, by Bernard Steffen. Popular choice: a train wreck by Lionel S. Reiss...
...starch manufacture which is ordinarily sold as hog & cattle feed at 2? per lb.-by extracting it with solvents, purifying and precipitating it. The resultant plastic, soluble in both paint solutions and water, is a sort of cross between casein and bakelite. Uses: buttons, laminated boards, high-speed printing ink ingredient, waterproof and oilproof varnish for paper. Mazein got into commercial production six months ago. Last fortnight for the first time it was spun into fibres, resembling wool fibres, which have not yet been fully tested...