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...Thomas Benton, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, Georges Schreiber, Max Weber, Adolf Dehn, Ernest Fiene, Arnold Blanch, Raphael Soyer, sells everything from $2 Christmas cards to $12,000 paintings. Its staff of 43 clerical workers sends out some 3,000,000 pieces of mail a year, helps handle the throng of artists (as many as 80 a week) who want a place on Lewenthal's roster...
...sight. Huge gangs of coolies pulled stone rollers that weighed seven to eight tons apiece. The first of three layers of stone had been put down for a foundation, and the stone was broken by man power: 30,000 hammers wielded by 30,000 men. The enormous field, the throng of sweating, straining workmen, were watched by a short, grey, bespectacled economist, wearing a tweed overcoat, an expression of awe on a face ordinarily expressionless. He was Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie...
Next day the train rolled on to Youngstown. In the chill morning, with a light fog rolling down the valley, the caravan was under way at 9 a.m. through quiet crowds that welled into one enormous throng in Public Square, roofed tenuously by vast webs of paper streamers. Willkie spoke simply, clearly, effectively. The crowd loved...
Then something happened. In ten minutes Wendell Willkie had lost his audience. The speech was logical, well-argued, businesslike-but not the stuff for a throng that wanted emotion, excitement, slam-bang oratory. The applause, at first hopeful, then despondent, finally narrowed down to the reserved seats. That night Willkie's shaken assistant kept from him the news of the Friday Gallup poll...
...right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...