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...were ousted two months ago as "Communists" by Union President Homer Martin (TIME, June 20). This rump meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch it up-presumably by kicking out President Martin. Cried Wyndham Mortimer, chief spokesman for the rump officials: "We need a C. I. 0. director with power to pull us out. We are a very sick union...
...members who are more concerned with Depression II than with their officers' funds, the issues seemed remote indeed. President Martin & board found Vice Presidents Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed. Hall guilty of conspiring with Stalinist Communists to wreck U. A. W., expelled them.* Convicted and suspended on the lesser charge of opposing the Martin clique's group insurance plan was Vice President Walter Wells...
...honorary John Harvard award has been given to Reed E. Peggram '35, 2G. Leo N. Gallary '25, 2G, Wyndham M. Southgate '81, assistant in History, and Norman A. Malcolm 2G. have also received grants...
...pale face, gentle, cavernous dark eyes, a Roman beak, cub ears and a meditative mouth. He has a famous aversion to being photographed and never until this spring had he sat for an important portrait in oils. Last week the completed Portrait of T. S. Eliot by Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis suddenly became celebrated. It was refused a place in the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of British Art. And in protest against this act the Academy's most distinguished member, bearded, boggling Artist Augustus John, promptly and gratefully resigned. Said he: "A picture by a person...
...picture was rejected he wrote to Lewis: "The portrait is one by which I am quite willing posterity should know me. . . . But I am glad to think that a portrait of myself is not to appear in the exhibition of the Royal Academy." Last week black-hatted, black-witted Wyndham Lewis (The Apes of God) turned up as a critic at the Academy's socialite preview and enjoyed himself among the stiff Coronation portraits. Artist John's resignation, said he, had dealt the Academy a mortal blow, "if it is possible to use the expression 'mortal blow...