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Britons are proud of the well-ordered beauties of their countryside. In the grimy industrial town of Birkenhead (pop. 141,600) last week, a show of paintings by Native Son Philip Wilson Steer celebrated those beauties in a fashion strictly to English taste...
Impressionist Steer's England is a frankly scenic place with rolling hills, verdant valleys, billowing clouds. At their best, his canvases, like those of Turner and Constable, give new life to familiar prospects, his watercolors catch fleeting tricks of sunlight and shadow with a few decisive strokes...
...felt ready to conquer Manhattan. He had $7½-million with him, and he was ready to bet it all on his new paper, the Morning Journal. One day Hearst rocked Pulitzer by buying away the entire Sunday staff of his World-including Morrill Goddard, who was to steer the blatant American Weekly toward the world's biggest circulation with such stories as NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO THE FRONT DOOR. From then on W.R.'s Journal outplayed the World at its own scare-head-hunting game. It was the Hearst-Pulitzer tug-of-war over...
...Amethyst had to hit the narrow opening in the boom or "she would slice off her bottom." As she approached it, a flare went up, Communist guns opened fire and the river erupted in waterspouts. Kerans saw a single light on the boom and prayerfully made a blind guess: "Steer just to port of the light." And the Amethyst went through without scraping her paint...
...Tulsa, Okla., after they advertised that they would give a cow to anyone who could decipher the OPS meat regulations, Grocers Wes & "Choo" Phillips tried to head off an insistent housewife whose 850-word explanation was approved by the local OPS, finally compromised, awarded her a side of choice steer...