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...Cornelius Jr. is scarcely famed in Paris-having chosen California as his place to toil and go bankrupt publishing tabloid news organs. Therefore announcements that General Cornelius Vanderbilt had made available $2,257,000 to pay the California tabloid creditors (TIME, Dec. 31), were of relatively slight interest to such typical Paris tycoons as M. Henri Letellier, publisher of the world's third largest newspaper, Le Journal. It was M. Letellier who employed, as his confidential and executive secretary until recently, the cherubic Erskine Gwynne. But tout Paris took keen interest, last week, at reports that Nephew Gwynne...
...ground that it is undraped . . . that is unessential criticism . . . only by stripping the figure could the artist tell the story he has told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...
...decrowding" are, according to Il Duce: 1) Rural begetting by deported fathers of more babes than they would beget in cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes to spend $375,000,000 during the next 14 years...
Smart readers began to have qualms when they read the first "Fighting Frankau Editorial": "The incessant toil, the incessant thought which have gone to the making of this 'new paper' . . . have given me joys and pains, compared whereto the joys and pains of mere novel writing seem vapid...
Labor: "Having earned my living with my own hands I cannot have other than the greatest sympathy with the aspirations of those who toil...