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Minnesota, which claimed the largest state-fair art show in the country, gave its first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine...
...appeal to you to vote for ... a brave mother of a brave son . . . Bob Coffey and I had a lot in common. We believed in progressive, democratic government . . . We were veterans together." Mrs. Curry Ethel Coffey, who used to work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district-Indiana, Armstrong and Cambria counties. She was campaigning to fill the unexpired term of her son. Colonel Robert Lewis Coffey Jr., World War II fighter...
Gray has insisted on widening discussion beyond his own views. Once a headline in one of the Gray papers called cigarettes "coffin tacks." That angered Publisher Gray's Uncle James, who is chairman of the board of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and second largest stockholder in the newspapers. Uncle James demanded that the managing editor be fired, but Publisher Gray refused. Last month, in a bitter dispute between a doctor and nurses at the county hospital, the county commissioners-led by a director of the Gray newspapers-sided with the doctor; the editors, again with Gray...
...Labor Department, new claims for jobless benefits totaled only 251,000, the lowest for any week since last November. Department store sales, hard hit by the hot summer, had also perked up a bit; retailers saw better business ahead. At the end of July, said FRB, 296 of the largest department stores had ordered $401 million in new goods, v. $286 million at the end of June...
Caught in a tight pair of Palm Beach pants earlier this year, the Goodall Co., largest U.S. maker of men's summer suits, suffered some embarrassing rips. It made many retailers mad when a sudden cut in the retail price of Palm Beach suits (fixed by Fair Trade laws in 45 states) forced merchants to lose profits on the suits in stock (TIME, July 18). Last week, Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward was confident that he could patch everything up. He had a brand-new kind of Palm Beach cloth which, he predicted, would revolutionize...