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...George Grosz's first drawings, done when he was twelve, represented a battle in which childlike soldiers enthusiastically killed and maimed one another. Later, as a young man, Grosz did a pen & ink called After It Was Over They Played Cards, showing three murderers sitting over a dismembered corpse. In his obsession with death, Grosz became a rebel against life, against the way men live it and treat each other. Before he escaped from Naziism in 1932, he was one of Germany's best and bitterest satirists...
Husky, handsome Paul C. Fisher, owner of Chicago's small but prosperous Fisher Pen Co., thinks of himself as a 20th century Tom Paine, and is hell-bent on stopping the "worldwide drift toward tyranny and destruction." Last week Penman Fisher went to jail for what he thought was the tyranny of the Wages & Hours...
...years ago, Government agents called at the pen works and asked to make a routine wage & hour check for the Department of Labor. The department had become interested in the company after the Illinois department of labor told Fisher that he was violating the law by employing people to work at home without a license. He stopped the practice, but the state turned the information over to the Federal Government. Fisher indignantly refused to show his books. The Government had no specific complaint against him, he argued, and thus had no right to see the books...
Last week Cartoonist Dowling. whose political humor always keeps on top of the news, put his pen to work on the big political consideration of the week: President Eisenhower's need for Democratic support in Congress to push through his legislative program. But Dowling still has more fun with the opposition, e.g., his cartoon of Stevenson in a lifeboat after his recent speech on the "fears" that have spread in the U.S. since the Republicans took office...
Discount houses will soon find detectives checking up on their activities. The W. A. Shaeffer Pen Co. has hired three agencies (Burns, Pinkerton, Willmark) to find out how discount men get hold of Shaeffer pens (some $125,000 worth in 1953) to sell below Fair Trade minimums...