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Uninfluenced by other U.S. artists, indifferent to both money and publicity, shy, mop-headed Bloom has seldom sold a picture, never had an exhibition. But critics last week, gawping over his cloisonné-colored rabbis and gaudy transmogrified chandeliers, were willing to rate him as one of the most striking of U.S. colorists...
Sharpest summation of Britain's mixed emotion over the war's new turn appeared in Punch. In an imaginary dialogue (presumably written before the Japanese attack) mop-headed M.P.-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert somewhat sourly discussed a mythical All-Aid-to-America Association...
Village is a study in faces-native Mexican mountain faces: strong-nosed, squash-nosed, distrustful, lucent and, except for the children, lined by labor. Its actors (all natives) are natural and astonishingly good, especially a mop-haired little boy (Paco), who dies of dysentery, and his older brother (Juan Diego), who makes the long hike to the city to return with the "horse-blood men"-Mexico's rural medicos and their vaccine...
...Mop-Up. In Salt Lake City, two weeks after somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's clean washing off her wash line, somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's washing machine...
...reduce the excess-profits tax exemption and increase Federal taxes sixfold. Chairman Pyeatt figured that before first and refunding bondholders could get the 5% due them on their present securities, profits under the proposed plan would have to hit $87,000,000, which is $52,000,000 more than MOP ever earned...