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Along with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
...inventing his serum, Professor D'Amour mildly poisoned rats with small doses of black widow venom. Eventually the rats became immune to the venom. Serum from the blood of the rats cured a vineyard worker three hours after a black widow...
...ghastly sexual ugliness: anger, amazement, and the desire to kill or rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father was a professor in his native Armenia; as an immigrant in Manhattan, he rose to be a janitor. Author Saroyan was born in the Fresno vineyard district of California, whither his father had gone to try his luck farming. Educated at public schools and libraries, by odd jobs and semi-starvation, William Saroyan began to write in his teens. But, says he, "I am not a writer at all. ... I write because there is nothing more civilized...
...that the record grafter of the of the entire Soviet Union has just been caught in Georgia were hailed with suppressed excitement last week. In Stalin's good graces, the No. 1 Grafter, whose name was not revealed, was a Communist Party member and director of a Georgian State vineyard. In four years he embezzled 500,000 rubles, lived in the luxury of an Asiatic Prince, and according to the Moscow press "actually called himself the 'Heir of the Mingrelian Princes,' the hereditary rulers of Georgia...
...bald head over a bouquet of yellow roses. What moved Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner to tears was the presence of 1,200 pious people in his Broadway Temple (Methodist) to celebrate the beginning of the 25th year of his work in the Manhattan corner of the Lord's vineyard. For three and one-half hours they listened to songs and praiseful speeches by churchmen, municipal officials, businessmen, Kiwanians. Said New York's District Attorney William C. Dodge, who worships at Broadway Temple: "I am going to God through Christian F. Reisner." Said Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia: "Whenever...