Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returning G.I.s, the acute shortage of housing, the steel strikes, and the many other phases of current industrial strife. The world is watching to see how the U.S. handles these problems, and TIME is fully prepared to cover them-from the national, not the Ivory Tower, point of view...
When General Motors and Big Steel are struck, or the President turns up unexpectedly in Missouri, or "Pappy" Boyington takes a wife, our own correspondents are there to give us the extra details of those events-from the local point of view. The reports from all these correspondents, and the editorial guidance that they send us, add up to TIME'S national point of view...
According to Torrey Johnson, President Truman, after a Y.F.C. rally in Olympia, Wash., said: "This is what I hoped would happen in America." But not all Americans are so sure. Some view with alarm the pious trumpeting of the Hearst press on Y.F.C.'s behalf, also the support of rightish. rabble-rousing "nationalists" like Gerald L. K. Smith. Of this kind of criticism, Torrey Johnson says: "Maybe he [Hearst] saw a million people across the country were going to Y.F.C. rallies every week and he decided to get in on the selling end. I've never gotten...
...Broker Chester Dale, who has spent over $6,000,000 for French and American paintings). Other buyers (mostly anonymous) paid $30,000 for one Toulouse-Lautrec, $27,500 for another. A Corot went for $18,000; a Cezanne portrait of his wife for $24,500; a view of the Seine by Daumier for $15,250, and one by Monet for $11,000; a Renoir nude sold for $12,000. Total evening's business: $221,500 for 20 paintings, almost double what art experts expected the lot to sell...
...Wilmington last week a memorial exhibition of 66 Wyeth illustrations and descriptive paintings was on view. Neighbors from nearby Chadds Ford, where he had lived, came over to take a look and to remember their genial, hard-working friend. They figured his kids might carry on. Three of Wyeth's five children, along with son-in-law Peter Kurd, are artists; son Andrew (28) had already had five one-man shows in Manhattan...