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This behind-bars art boom was started by 20 young proletarian artists, who call themselves "the Wedge." The group is dedicated to teaching painting to people who otherwise would not know an easel from a weasel. Formed six years ago-when most of its members were still art students-the Wedgies have inspired some 600 proselytes (in & out of jail). Bricklayers, factory workers and carpenters by day, Wedge members invade the prisons at night, with armloads of free paint and canvas. For their work in provincial jails and small villages, the art missionaries dip into the group kitty, which...
Last week, after a slight sag, the industrials broke through again, rising to a new 1947 high of 186.85. Once more, the rails failed to follow the breakthrough. To the strict Dow theorists, it was still a bear market, though some were trying to weasel through a semantic loophole: the so-called bear market might be only a large scale reaction in the wartime bull market...
...yoman orchestra through it deftly. That called for five bows. Then he played the solo part of Ravel's Piano Concerto, conducting from the piano. Some of the more critical in the audience thought they had heard better performances, but if Bernstein had played Pop! Goes the Weasel, the audience would have loved him just as much...
...business had now learned better. Now, N.A.M. was trying to establish itself "as an organization . . . believing that industry and the country's welfare must move forward together." Henceforth, N.A.M. would try to solve the nation's legitimate economic problems with "no doubletalk, no weasel-wording, no ducking the tough ones...
Union. Meanwhile the deputies sent the bishops a weasel on the hottest question of the convention-unity with the Presbyterians. The weasel: another three-years' study of merger plans...