Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haseltine, is to model only from a champion. Furthermore, the owners of such prize animals are usually only too glad to pay for it. For 13 years Haseltine has been freezing champions into stone and bronze as accurately as a Stone Age man graphing a bison on his cave wall. Last week the results, tilling two rooms in Manhattan's swank Knoedler Galleries, were packed up and shipped to Chicago's Field Museum at Marshall Field's expense to go on permanent exhibition...
RAYMOND M. WALL...
Thanks, but no further reward to Subscriber Wall for his well-meaning but unworkable suggestion that TIME dull the sharp line between editorial and advertising matter...
This 5-to-1 oversubscription of a big Treasury loan was the last big job of Secretary Morgenthau's assistant, Earle Bailie, who had had to resign because of his Wall Street connections. Next day Mr. Bailie complacently packed his bags to leave Washington. Marriner Stoddard Eccles, big Mormon banker of Ogden, Utah arrived four days later as a special Treasury assistant, bringing his Leftwing-ish ideas of debt cancellation and high income and inheritance taxes. Secretary Morgenthau, asked what Mr. Eccles' job would be, replied, "I don't know yet." Asked what man would succeed...
...unreality beside the photographs that illustrate it. Among its gory snapshots of corpses cluttering the snow, frozen into the many awkward postures of Death, one stands out as the most ghastly yet published in any war book. It is labeled an execution in Kazan. Backed against the rough-hewn wall of a log cabin eleven men, most in underclothes, barefoot, one half-naked, are standing in the snow. The volley (whose echo Authoress Yurlova compares to "an immensely swift flight of pigeons across the yard") has just crashed. The camera's shutter has caught the eleven bullet-riddled victims...