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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swinging swiftly in a wide arc he squared away for a landing, let down his landing gear. Then came some more of the sort of bad luck that has dogged new Army ships of late. As Pilot Kelsey suddenly realized that he was falling short, he opened his throttles to drag into the field. Without so much as a cough his left engine died. Plowing her wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled...
...social conditions. Liberal artists conceive the tradition of the fine arts as involving a like growth and adaptation. Occasionally, in each field, progress in interpretation is marked by a commentary so learned as to become a classic. Published last week was a serious book which may well become a sort of Blackstone on Coke to future art students. The subject: The Art of Cezanne* The commentators: Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Dr. Albert Coombs (''Argyrol") Barnes of Merion, Pa. got his nickname, his millions, and his great collection of French paintings from the product* he trademarked...
Aside from the clash of personalities inevitably involved in a case of this sort, Professor Feild's concluding appointment is the result of a fundamental difference of opinion within the department. At present, overwhelming stress is laid on the historical and factual approach to the Fine Arts. Students are filled with names and dates, are taught to recognize famous pictures, to distinguish the works of one master from those of another. While there is a branch of the department devoted to design and actual drawing, it is isolated and disconnected from everything else, and no one seemingly knows...
...hard-pressed Harrison Williams had sold nearly half his holdings for a mere $28,000,000. His remaining 51% control of Central States, through a bizarre series of other holding companies, gave him a net interest of 18.3% in North American. This is the sort of setup the Public Utility Holding Company ("death sentence") Act of 1935 was specifically designed to alter. Shrewd Harrison Williams was the first of the major utility tycoons to submit to its painful yoke, and North American registered with SEC in February 1937. By last fall when SEC finally forced the rest of the industry...
...company narrowly missed annihilation, he confessed: "I was seized with violent rage that precious life could be damaged so easily. . . . We soldiers are not only sons of men, but also husbands and fathers. We are human beings. . . . This is not the first time for me to have this sort of feeling. It is one of the most commonplace thoughts on the field of battle...