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...reason was Siqueiros' bold use of bold materials. Industrial enamels like Peroxylin and Vinylite he applied, sometimes with a spray gun, to Masonite and Bakelite. They made his paintings loom bright and powerful as new trucks. But there was a deeper reason: Siqueiros had at last taken Eisenstein's advice and ditched the propaganda art of his own manifesto. Illustrative documentary painting of social injustice might be fine for educating the masses, but by now it bored Siqueiros...
...last year's 44-college meet at Franklin Field. Michigan State was second and the Crimson and Penn State tied for third. Varsity javelin thrower Don Thimble won his event and will be back on the firing line this spring. Trimble, along with weightman Sam Felton, loom as definite Olympic possibilities...
Outside of a choice vocabulary, a wartime course on the intricacies of slit-trench excavation bears little fruit for the veteran studying English at Harvard. College men bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...
...like a lot of rumpus, else why's it so quite out here.") Similarly, Robert K. Bingham's "Faux Pas" proceeds from an ingenious episode idea to pretty dubious execution of it. The infiltrating touches of amateurism would not jar if the top-level did not loom so very near...
...nerve center of U.S. agricultural economics is the vast, modern Chicago Board of Trade Building. Its massive 41 floors loom as large as agriculture does in the U.S. economy. Ceres, goddess of grain, stands pre-eminent at the very top of the building. In the grain pits below, more grain is bought & sold than anywhere else in the world, sometimes months before it is even grown. Last week a TIME correspondent paid a visit to Ceres' slightly mad court...