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...period of financial and marital difficulties (he has been divorced), Grant Wood resolved to take a year off to paint. Last week, a thoroughly happy man, he was producing once more, had enjoyed doing a portrait of his old Iowa friend, Henry Wallace, for TIME (see cover). His first one-man show in six years is scheduled for next March...
...whose companies had some 30 contracts with C. I. O. and A. F. of L., did not ignore this challenge. Mr. Flynn's "labor spies," said he, were hired for only one job: to inspect collections on Commonwealth & Southern streetcars when they changed from two-man to one-man operation, see that all the nickels went into the cash...
...Chicago's Superintendent of Sewers who conducted a one-man 45-minute demonstration for Roosevelt at the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...looking beyond the seas. Yet now he does so and to him there is no wrench in doing so. He is not even surprised, as he well might be, to find William Allen White climbing through the ropes into the ring with Adolf Hitler. He has long been a one-man committee to defend the kind of democracy that he has known and in his view events have simply given his Committee a new title...
Today squat, whimsical Portinari is beginning to be rated as Brazil's, and probably South America's, No. i Painter. Already Detroit's up-&-coming Institute of Arts and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art have arranged one-man shows of 130-odd Portinari canvases (for typical examples, see cuts p. 37). Recently Brazilians have let him paint frescoes for Rio's Department of Education Building and panels for Brazil's pavilion at the New York World's Fair. But Rio de Janeiro's salons still deplore his Negro subjects, prefer...