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Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute show, 302 paintings chosen from the entries of 4,812 little-knowns and unknowns, turned out to be mainly a clutter of imitative and not-too-expert oils. But it did plow up a handful of unrecognized U.S. talent. And many of its prize-losers seemed as good jobs of painting as the show possessed...
...even the Best People could help tony Evangelist Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman out of his latest difficulty. Plow-nosed, shark-chinned "Dr." Buchman's Oxford Group had run head on into the British Government in the person of blocky, slum-born Labor Minister Ernest Bevin...
Deadlock. Meanwhile, reportedly on their way to Vladivostok, fast as they can plow across the Pacific, are the first units of a fleet of U.S. merchant ships bearing supplies for Russia. Some time during the next week or two they will presumably move into waters which are patrolled by Japan. These ships, said Tokyo, are embarrassing to Japan. But to a Japanese complaint last week Cordell Hull gave a cool answer. The U.S., said he, will stand by its historic policy of the freedom of the seas...
During the Hour he may hear the gossip of fellow agrarians, enjoy snatches of semi-classical music and follow the adventures of "Uncle Sam's Forest Rangers" as they plow through a script prepared by the U.S. Forest Service. He chuckles at the antics of Aunt Fanny, postmistress of mythical Cheery Valley, smiles knowingly when Announcer Everett Mitchell gets off his famed daily greeting (often in the midst of a nor'easter): "It's a beautiful day in Chicago...
This was a stunner to Claude Wickard. He knew what it was to walk all day behind a plow pulled by a restless team; to pick corn with cold fingers and an aching back, to spread manure by hand, to shock wheat all day under a hot sun. He knew that hogs could suddenly stop getting fat and die of cholera; that if they didn't die they could sell so cheaply there was no profit in the year's long work. He wanted to do something about that. He wanted to help make farm life better...