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...TIME was a fine unbiased weekly condensation of the news to which I should have subscribed at twice the rate, but I wish to free my mailbox of that stable odor (not new-mown hay) which seeps from the pages of your new-deal TIME...
...attend. By week's end 2,500 gallerygoers from as far away as San Francisco and Baltimore had followed them. To add to the U. S. atmosphere, Cranbrook provided U. S. tomato plants in window boxes, U. S. music, Rhine wine flavored to taste like U. S. new-mown...
...bleachers. Then came Goodman, a dangerous batter in a tight spot. The first was high and inside. Then the announcer's voice rose to a deafening crescendo. "Folks it's a no-hitter!" Old Tex Carleton, 33, and recently resurrected from the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers, had mown down the mighty Reds...
Along the whole line . . . the battle raged with a desperation and to an extent unknown in the previous history of the war. . . . Whole brigades charged repeatedly our batteries, only to be mown down, captured, or driven back in confusion . . . until 4 p. m., when the enemy withdrew and retired, weaker by 25,000 to 30,000 than when the battle began...
Exulted Edward Bruce at the show's opening: "It is a panorama of America triumphant, clear-eyed and unafraid. It smells as sweet as a new-mown field of clover." Less partial critics still found much to praise, noted a steady improvement from 1934, agreed that even if the SFA has yet to uncover a genius, it has uncovered plenty of talent...