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...National Academy member, who is well off with 53 summer students, gets fat prices for his female nudes, and in his portrait work can afford to turn down women, paint only men whose faces he admires. It includes Guy Pene du Bois whose fame dates back to pre-War I days when he, Davies, Bellows, Luks, Henri were putting modern U. S. painting on the map. Another member is young, happy-go-lucky Galed Gesner (usually willing to let a picture go for the price of a good fishing rod), who last year got an average of $51 a picture...
...World War II prices as a whole have not run away. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index for 28 basic commodities was last week only 106.8, less than seven points above pre-war August 1939, and well down from last September's peak of 127.2. Meanwhile the price index of finished manufactured goods held practically level. The industrial raw materials index was 66.5 before the war, 72.3 in September, only 70.8 three weeks ago. Hence most businessmen do not yet fear runaway prices. Actually, they are more alarmed by the idea of price-fixing by the New Deal...
...vital in convoy service, a sufficient number of British destroyers might be the difference between success and failure in repelling a German invasion of Britain by sea. But next to trawlers, destroyers have also suffered most from air bombings. Up to last week Britain had lost 23 of her pre-war fleet of 192 destroyers. The question that Navy men pondered was whether the U. S. might therefore be safer if it sold 50 of its old World War I destroyers (out of a fleet of 230) to help save Britain...
Phantom Arsenals. Anxious to break down the general reluctance of the people to accept dictation and to prevent growing criticism of the Government for not restoring pre-war conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry...
...freak-fenestration's pioneer, Saks Fifth Avenue, was at it again. This time the artist who furnished the in spiration was Henri Rousseau, the little French baggage inspector whose quaint, ingeniously primitive jungle pictures (painted on his Sundays off at the Zoo in the Jardin des Plantes) awed pre-war Paris...