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...setting of garish sports shirts, pastel shorts, and knobby knees pinkening in the summer sun, 500 designers, teachers and admen gathered in Colorado last week for the eleventh annual Aspen International Design Conference. The theme of the conference was "Man-The Problem Solver." But if the delegates expected comforting words on man's deductive powers, they were brought up short by Designer Bernard Rudofsky, chief architect of U.S. exhibits at the Brussels Fair and guest director of exhibitions at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...deodorant that improves the social attractions of marble statues. There have been pens that write on butter, watches for attachment to boat propellers, electric shavers for Georgians who want to shave peaches and for kids who like to shave balloons. But the season's most ingenious problem-solver is just gurgling in: an instant lather for men who like to shave under water...
Said Dodds: "No school for normal youth can escape the duty to develop the intellectual approach to life and to train the mind as a means for personal enjoyment and as a solver of problems. Unfortunately, when we come to view America's vast system of tax-supported secondary education, we are bound, I fear, to admit that, with all it has to its credit, it is not fulfilling its duty to the mind ... Its greatest weakness has come from playing down academic scholarship ... in favor of universality at a level of intellectual aptitudes adjusted to a common denominator...
Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months for perjury arising out of a $412,000 income-tax-evasion charge. When he got out, he took up where he had left off, and, in the opinion of many Hollywood-ians, is correctly billed as the grand old man of the movies...
...good reason why artists are notoriously impecunious is that pictures are notoriously hard to sell. Last week a venerable, famed (and comfortably off) British artist announced that he had found a way out: he gives his pictures away. As a solver of financial problems, Sir Frank Brangwyn seemed to fellow artists reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's White Knight, who thought up a scheme "to keep the Menai Bridge from rust by boiling it in wine...