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...rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic lantern slides. But all agreed the incident was historic...
...night Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie, and from then on. See what I mean? Isn't she marvelous? She's really primitive."). The company so neatly evoked, is a company whose average intelligence rises only slightly above the threshold of human consciousness...
...hold a general election, with its attendant publicity of the divisions of French political thought, while it was engaged in a "white war" with the Axis powers. Said Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, author of the French three-year economic plan which will also run until 1942: "Today ... on the threshold of the most perilous period of our history, I am sure that nobody would do anything to weaken France by dividing her. The bloodless war which is being forced on us, we can and must...
Sleepy "Shay" Minton managed to detain Senator Logan's passed bill at the Senate's threshold last week by a motion to reconsider, but if it passes the House this week, Kentucky's Logan will have a historic triumph over "administrative autocracy...
...threshold of this new adventure, in which the whole Army wishes you success, the War Office bids you welcome...