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...past four months tourists to the State Capitol at Jefferson City, Mo., many of them eating as they walked, have passed into the oblong Italianate Representatives' Lounge and gaped earnestly at a small, dark, wiry man painting furiously in a faint odor of rotten eggs, while the walls slowly blossomed with mule skinners, Mormons, dancing Negroes and Mississippi boatmen. Artist Thomas Hart Benton last week had finished, and some of the most important murals in the U. S. were ready for their formal unveiling...
...Havana last week there was such tension, such scurrying of Government leaders to U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, the arbiter of every Cuban crisis, as there has not been since the collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator...
...Johnson, both of whom died in time to fit into their proper volumes. It contains fewer biographies (13,633) by more contributors (2,243). Originally Editor Johnson decided to set a limit of 10,000 words to each biography, but that was exceeded in five instances: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson...
...Jefferson City, Mo., after tunneling 140 ft. under the penitentiary walls for 64 days while two fellow convicts smuggled food and water to him, Prisoner Fred Turner, 22, broke through the wall into the arms of a guard who had been waiting there for him a fortnight...
...LIVING JEFFERSON-James Truslow Adams-Scribner...