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Nationalists. Kootz, who once cracked in the New York Times that "Cézanne made an apple important; Benton ... a lynching trivial," makes another attack on Thomas Hart Benton and his fellow U.S. nationalists. Says Kootz: "Benton and Wood, Curry and Marsh . . . went American so raucously, so insistently, that they provided and inspired an enormous flood of dull, routine anecdotes. . . . Each of the nationalist lads has his own little counter to set up trade. From it he dispenses post cards, heavy with facts, guaranteed to counteract any itch that jeopardizes a continued comfort...
...Tactically Logical Cruiser for Modern War was what Author Peter Marsh Stanford called his unorthodox proposal. Besides four 14-in. guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...
...Peter Marsh Stanford is no ordinary naval expert. He has been a seadog since the age of two, knows naval history backward and forward, is no mean amateur expert. He has not yet been on a ship bigger than a destroyer, but he knows the sea, "which is more important." A third-year student at Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, he will be 16 years old come January...
Hundreds thought so too, readers back-patted him by mail. But one letter was of different ilk, from Advertising Executive John Marsh, Authoress Mitchell's husband and trouble shooter; it demanded an apology. Southern pride, suh, had been hurt...
...succeed volcanic Leon Henderson as Price Boss (see above), Franklin Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...