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Unshorn head were raised hastily from the fine print of Widener thumb-marked volumes yesterday afternoon as annoyed scholars became suddenly aware of insistent car-honking directly outside the library on Massachusetts Avenue...
With each stroke of the hammer Wyatt hit his own thumb. He quarreled with other agencies, ran afoul of the powerful real estate lobby. Congress had backed down on price ceilings, had failed to enact the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill for low-cost housing. Wyatt went overboard for prefabricated homes, which would use vast quantities of still-scarce sheet steel. When he asked RFC to underwrite this assembly-line program he bumped smack into RFC's roly-poly George Allen (TIME...
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Everyone, even an art critic, has his own way of valuing pictures. Nils Nilsson Skum, a Laplander, values them according to one rule-of-thumb: how many reindeer do they show? His own crayon drawings sometimes have hundreds. He figures that must be why three Swedish museums own them. It was not the reason that Manhattan's Museum of Natural History put his pictures on exhibition last week. The Museum had found a primitive of the likes of upstate New York's octogenarian painter "Grandma" Moses (TIME...
Floodlights made the still unfinished façade stick out like a sore (but well-manicured) thumb. Under the rich-red-marquee and in the gold-tinted, glass-walled lobby, uniformed attendants and tuxedoed higher-ups bowed and bustled. The grand opening of Manhattan's Park Avenue Theater last week had all the hoopla of a Hollywood première, except for one thing. There were no crowds...