Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Campanella's students and most of his faculty sided with Siqueiros. When Campanella announced that he had banned the Maestro from the premises, they offered their resignations. In Mexico City, Siqueiros roared that Campanella was a "gangster" whose "frauds . . . are now a criminal matter." Diego Rivera and 40-odd other topflight Mexican painters got off a fire-breathing manifesto charging Campanella with breach of contract, and declared a boycott against the school...
...inaccessible heaven of the ecstasy of love, at the summit of which there is only a precipice-love in death and death in love . . ." Only the New Statesman and Nation had the wit to smile at such Daliance and say the sanest thing heard in the hubbub: "How odd that people should have taken Mad Tristan ... so seriously...
...scene is the 1880s, when France had just shipped the Statue of Liberty (in 200-odd cases) to the U.S. The plot concerns a circulation war over the statue between Joseph Pulitzer's N.Y. World and James Gordon Bennett's N.Y. Herald. A Herald photographer brings over from Paris the girl who was Sculptor Bartholdi's model for the statue-only it turns out that she wasn't. The customary hocus-pocus leads to the customary happy ending...
What brought all this on was some odd maneuvering by the Treasury itself. Two years ago several distillers asked it to approve, as legally aged, whisky stored in used casks during the wartime barrel shortage. Treasury refused, but later reversed itself. The switch would mean a profit (because of the increased value that would result) of some $90 million for a few big distillers, mostly outside Kentucky, who have 30 million gallons of whisky in secondhand barrels. When the industry squawked, Treasury held up its ruling, called last week's hearing...
...onetime newsboy, dark-haired Bill Richards hustled at odd jobs to pay his way through Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a degree in chemical engineering, he landed a research job in the Studebaker plant at South Bend, Ind., but was soon booted out because he spent all his time fooling around with racing cars. After the Indianapolis crackup, he worked as a truck farmer's assistant, spotted the scraggly Cap Cod patch at Sandwich and bought it cheap...