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...Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme: "People ask me why English spy stories are generally better than American. The answer is easy. . . . In both World Wars British Intelligence in and out of Germany had been excellent...
Among those obliging him (with one or more examples) were top-rank painters Kuniyoshi, Benton, Marsh, Gropper, Grosz, Evergood, Curry; cartoonists Thurber, Steinberg, R. Taylor. (Amiably disobliging was twice-married oldtimer Maurice Sterne, who wrote: "Why not have an exhibition to include artists' wives? . . . Some pretty good painters have been married three or four times; these could be numbered . . . and would be an interesting study in retrogression...
When the Army canceled the contracts ($3,800 a year, plus 25% for overseas service), a half dozen magazines saw an opportunity. Collier's signed up Howard Cook. LIFE took over contracts with Bruce Mitchell, Millard Sheets, Aaron Bohrod, Reginald Marsh and eight others. It still is dickering with five more.* Said Editor Boswell: ". . . It will be another example of private enterprise having better judgment of relative values than Government...
...unless private funds come to their rescue, will be 42 uniformed artists (19 civilian employes, 23 from the Army). Among the painters involved are: George Biddle himself (now in Algeria), Californian Millard Sheets, Texan Howard Cook, Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod, New Yorkers Henry Varnum Poor, Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook...
...about LOUIS AUDET, C. R. RITT, H. S. SMITH and that Chap, ROBINSON all getting married this month I wish that you would hurry up and get here because I am getting the bug, too....You asked me about some snapshots of Harvard? Well, BILL PAGE and ALBERT J. Marsh took some dandies the day of the graduation ceremonies and BILL says he got a swell action picture of me...yes, sound asleep while a Latin Speech was being delivered...all I know about that is "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...and 'I'm not sure whether it was he or Caesar...