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...only a small local exhibition, in Loughborough, in Britain's Leicestershire, but the critics agreed that it had one really notable painting. Figure 8, Skegness, the picture they singled out, showed a whirl of bright-colored roller-coasters against a sea blobbed with boats. Wrote one critic: "A fine specimen of modernism by the Barrow-on-Soar artist, Thomas Warbis ... A study of it will be all the more interesting in view of the present controversy in the art world concerning a famous artist's [Sir Alfred Munnings] attack on modernism." Added the Loughborough Echo: "Mr. Warbis...
...Publisher Edward Anthony, who spent several hours a day smoothing feathers ruffled by Ruppel, let the dervish whirl for a while. Then Ruppel cooled off and his staff calmed down. Crowell-Col-lier's top management was prepared to string along with Ruppel: in one year, Collier's advertising linage had dropped 15%, and Crowell-Collier's profits had plummeted from $4,866,000 to $2,419,-ooo. For these deep-seated troubles, a drastic cure was needed. Louis Ruppel was about the most drastic remedy to be found anywhere...
Finally, everyone had another round of Pepsi, and the pepped-up stockholders went home. Stock-market traders had joined the party for a little whirl; this week, Pepsi rose to $12 a share...
...some 20th Century cigarettes in the closet of a cute little nymph named Sapphire; she fouls up the witches, hexes the horses, mortifies the magicians. By the time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides to whirl back to the bloody old 2Oth Century with little Sapphire. All this is Poet Graves's way of saying that to be too good (as were the New Cretans) is just as bad as to be too bad (as people are today;. Cries the Goddess...
Hockey, basketball, wrestling, and all the other activities of the recent season that have been keeping College sports fans from hibernation take a last whirl in the next few days. Spring athletics, in the incubator stage of late, are getting set to come outdoors...