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Almost every week we get letters from TIME readers commenting on how useful they find our coverage of the news of art. Wrote one: "You may like to know that I remove the Art section of TIME each week and place it in a loose-leaf binder, thus making a valuable and useful art collection...
...addition, Maritime Chairman Rothschild has pulled a leaf from the auto dealers' book; he has started a tanker trade-in program that he hopes will add 20 old tankers to the reserve fleet and start ten new ones abuilding in U.S. shipyards. Under the new plan, any tanker more than ten years old can be traded in for mothballing; the Government will pay a trade-in allowance that can then be used to build a new ship to replace the old one in active service. Another new idea is patterned after FHA: the board will insure ship mortgages...
...Some ants are gardeners. Latin America's famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
What Next? Has the do-it-yourself boom reached its peak? No one thinks so -least of all the do-it-yourselfers. As their skills increase, they see themselves tackling bigger and bigger projects. The man who has put together an 8-ft. pram begins to leaf through plans for an 18-ft. outboard cruiser. The woman who has restuffed and recovered an old chair begins to wonder if she could not make a set of furniture for the dining room. Sales to the shoulder trade are climbing so fast that by 1960 the estimates are that they will...
...salad days in vaudeville, through the incessant confrontations with celebrity ("She made Calvin Coolidge smile"), the endless charity appearances, and the amiable little extraversions (she once gratified an impulse "to feel a lion," reported that "he was very handsome"). In the end the audience sees her in the yellow leaf of her eighth decade, as she lives and works now with her second companion, Polly Thompson, in their Connecticut home-drying dishes, following her guide rail for a walk in the fields, choring through the morning mail, touching music in a radio, caught reading a volume in Braille beneath...