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...loves to give the American head a kindly pat. Wrote he in the Listener: "The best analogy that I can find for the peculiar American-ness of such painters ... is to compare their products to those of American automobile makers . . . American cars are well-designed and well-built, sleek and shiny, and they are very comfortable, as cars...
...months mixed Mexican-American teams, criss-crossing the country in cream-colored trucks, vaccinated the 17 million cattle in the danger zone four times each (immunization lasts only for about four months). No outbreak of aftosa has been discovered since December 1949. This week the last sleek steer received his last injection...
...quivering Mobile by U.S. Abstractionist Alexander Calder. Sprouting from the grass like a strange new species of mushroom were a pair of coldly obscure stone lumps by Englishman Henry Moore, who had laconically dubbed them Carving and Sculpture. Near by perched two glistening, seal-sleek shapes entitled Crown of Buds and Bad Fruit, by ex-Dadaist Jean Arp. "The most obscene works in the show," commented one visitor, "but nobody realizes...
American President Lines launched this sleek 19,600-ton, 536-foot passenger cargo liner, the S.S. President Jackson, in Camden, NJ. last week Built at a cost of %13 million Jackson does 19 knots, is the first of three new round-the-world liners which American President will have in service by May 1951 The Jackson which-has pastel-tinted interiors designed by Raymond Loewy air-conditioned staterooms and an outdoor swimming pool, can carry 204 passengers, all first class. Fare for the 100-day globe-girdling cruise...
...examples range from Yale's new Art Gallery and Harvard's new Graduate Center to the Midwest Interlibrary Center in Chicago, all with sleek, modern lines and whole walls of glass. Vassar's new dormitory will be a low, T-shaped structure with banks of windows set in frames of white stone. Mt. Holyoke has already completed its functional new dormitory of red brick...