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...Fortnight ago Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery opened the first U. S. one-man show of a long-dead Munich painter named Franz Marc. Just before the outbreak of World War I, sad-eyed Franz Marc became disgusted with human beings, decided to spend the rest of his life painting animals. He painted pink and blue horses prancing in quiet landscapes, garish dogs, tigers, monkeys, cows and deer. Germans regarded him as one of the topflight painters of his period. When Painter Marc was mustered off to war, even his animal world seemed too close to the savage world...
...harvester and sailor, he discovered art by drawing dirty pictures for his pals. He joined the Navy to get three squares a day, became a top-notch boxer, began painting seriously when he got out in 1926. Settling in California, he rapidly won museum awards, Federal mural jobs; had one-man shows in Los Angeles and in San Diego...
...Broldrick, Dunster back, put on a one-man show most of the afternoon but was unable to break the deadlock. Ailing Jack Carpenter, hero of previous Puritan victories, came in the fourth period to try and bolster his team's offense but be also failed...
...agonized effort to tool up for the complex Garand, Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at last was almost ready to begin quantity production. But Ordnance officers were still unhappy about Melvin Johnson and all his works, including his latest: a 14-lb. (when loaded; 12-lb. empty), super-simple, one-man machine gun. The Department continued to beg inventors to devise a 22-lb. light machine gun, up to last week had neither offered nor been asked to test the new Johnson. Having been told (unofficially, but unmistakably) that he could never do business with the U. S. Army, Inventor Johnson...
Asserting in a broadcast that "we are sick of the kind of one-man government that calls an ambassador of the United States "my ambassador"-an allusion to President Roosevelt's Boston speech-Willkie said that Mr. Roosevelt's associates in government were "the secret ballot behind the ballot that the third term candidate offers to the country...