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...world that inspires artists. French Author-Critic André Malraux, a European cultivated to the breaking point, put that idea across in The Voices of Silence (TIME, Feb. 15). Yet painters who prefer the fields to the museums, and who try to describe nature rather than to repeat or surpass another man's picture, do not fit this theory. The U.S. has been rich in such artists, as it has been poor in art traditions. Even now, with objective painting on the wane every where, America has its Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield...
...executive branch had spent $3.3 billion less than Congress had appropriated. The biggest savings were in outlays for defense and mutual security. The Defense Department alone reduced military spending by $1.4 billion; mutual-aid spending was down $680 million. All told, to offset tax and revenue cuts and still surpass the President's goal, the Administration had to stay $10 billion below the Truman estimates...
...with Harvard's libraries, prestige, faculty, proximity to cultural and metropolitan Boston, and relations with nearby denominational schools of theology, the Divinity School had the potential to rival, if not surpass these other schools, and also to regain equal footing with the other graduate schools of the University...
...Favorite Husband (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS), a happy-family newcomer, last week boasted a Trendex rating of 25-compared to only 21.5 for its top competitor, the gaudy Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. The fact that Husband was able to equal, and then surpass, the rating of one of the best and oldest of the expensive variety shows may have played an important part in the decision to break up the team of Caesar and Coca next season (TIME, March...
...cargo traffic will surpass passenger volume by 1960, predicted Ralph Damon, president of Trans World Airlines. For T.W.A. alone, international cargo loadings have increased nearly 1,000% in five years (from 776,964 ton-miles to 8,000,000), now represent 30% of the airline's total cargo business...