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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incident got an exceptionally bad press. Franklin Roosevelt read the papers over his breakfast coffee, grabbed the telephone, and himself called Mr. Landon. The Kansan, in a press conference, was at the peak of a denunciation of Term III. Everybody had muffed everything, said the President mellowly; he always liked to eat lunch with Mr. Landon whenever he happened to pass through Washington. Mr. Landon, 835 miles away in Chicago, just gulped, then entrained for Washington...
...past five years art has boomed in the U. S. For sheer quantity of paint, canvas and public interest, the period has probably been unequaled even by the peak years of the Italian Renaissance. Some symptoms: 1) WPA Art Project's estimated 2,000,000 square feet of surface painted to date; 2) 790 exhibitions sponsored throughout the U. S. since 1932 by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; 3) a bull market in art books (262 were published in 1939). During the past three years the No. 1 U. S. source of popular knowledge...
...audible pipe against the New Deal, The New Yorker, TIME ("major house organ for the American business class"), the post 1930 Soviet cinema. No less snappish is the Partisan Review theatre critic, Mary McCarthy (Mrs. Edmund Wilson), who breaks Broadway butterfly hits on an ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged' in America ... is more esthetically barren and tasteless than anything that...
Showing an increase in its peak load of 75 percent since 1937, the circulation of Widener Library reached a record peak on April 22 when 1615 books were borrowed by students. Library officials said yesterday. They expect this year's total circulation to be 10 percent larger than last year...
...Library always meets its peak load towards the end of April just before the beginning of reading period. On April 24, 1939, the Library's record day last year, 1232 books were lent out, 30 percent less than the number borrowed on this year's peak...