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According to the ancients, art had two functions: to instruct and to give pleasure. Much of today's art is instructive: it selects details of the actual world and invites contemplation of them. Another kind of modern art gives pleasure by the sheer wit, fantasy and exuberance of its forms. Darrel Austin's paintings are of this sort, and the infectious charm of his queer, metallic-sheened amphibian fairyland has recently made him one of the most popular of contemporary U.S. artists...
Neufeld, selected with 200 others from a list of 6,000 applicants, will be trained to instruct future Navy pilots at the four new Navy pre-flight training schools to be located at the University of North Carolina, the University of Georgia, the University of Iowa, and St. Mary's College in California...
...dramatic meditation. It was prefaced with an introduction by President Roosevelt (read by Archibald MacLeish). The four major networks and many independent stations-some 700 stations in all-contributed the time. It was the first of 13 shows suggested by the Office of Facts and Figures, designed to instruct and confirm the American spirit, and entitled This...
Most, like Ensign Kidd, asked for submarine duty. Of the 547 graduates, 25 top men remained at the Academy for four months to instruct Naval Reservists, some went to engineering schools for a few months' further technical instruction in radio, etc., the rest, after a month's leave, will go straight to naval aviation...
Some of the specific requests already received, besides the blanket appeal of the Red Cross for volunteers at 18 Brattle Street, Include a call for someone to instruct sailors in marine Diesel engines of the Cooper-Bessemen type; a tutor in fine arts for a member of the Coast Guard; and students with a knowledge of shorthand, radio, mathematics or physics