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...free way of painting what he sees, Dong has a characteristic western explanation: "Nature is really very messy. It is the artist's job to straighten...
...September issue of Pic, completely redesigned. Readers of the previous dime, 50-page Pic, which was full of sleazy cheesecake, will hardly recognize the old girl in her new hairdo. The magazine has a new editor-tall, boyish Victor H. Wagner-and he has an assignment to make Pic straighten up and fly right after eight years of floundering...
...Rubber Boss. When Jeffers went to Washington in 1942 to straighten out the rubber program, his loud ways proved effective. Critics sneered that all he had was a "good publicity man." But plain citizens were delighted at the way he exploded at Congressmen and "bunglers." He bulled through half of the rubber program at a time when a battering ram was more effective than a reasoned argument. When he went back to his $75,000 a year job with the U.P. (later he carefully collected the 97? which Uncle Sam owed him on his $1 a year salary), the rubber...
Lustig promptly protested the News story. He insisted that the Treasury's probe had been requested by him to straighten out his books, that much of the cash owed the Treasury had already been paid. His explanation for the cash on hand revealed some of the tribulations of running a restaurant chain under OPA ceilings. Said he, with unblushing candor: "It is common knowledge today that many articles for consumption in public eating places as well as at home can only be purchased with cash...
...gain-consistency -will arise from the fact that for the first time in twelve years the White House and the State Department can be expected to think alike. The twists and turns of U.S. policy, which once bewildered our allies as well as our enemies, can be expected to straighten out into a more surely predictable course...