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...column in length (Calvin Coolidge ever after referred to TIME stories as "eye-tems"), and although it was published in a busy week when Congress was winding up a session, spot news of the week received scant mention. Gradually TIME style developed. Gradually more and more news, with its background and significance, was put into TIME. As money was earned it was spent to improve the quality of the magazine. The editorial cost of producing an issue of TIME is today just about 50 times as great as 15 years ago. In fact the expert color photographs used nowadays...
...Last week it was baptized in extremism by the first pontifical show ever held of U. S. abstract art. The showrooms were filled with 150 constructions, ranging from an arrangement of amoeba shapes, wires and an electric headlight, to round and oval salad bowls stuck on a chaste grey background. They were the work of some 50 members of the American Abstract Artists, a two-year-old and growing group which takes itself very seriously as the nucleus of a new geometric school...
Cautioning against placing too much emphasis on a student's I. Q. MacLean said that knowledge of the student, knowledge of his social background, and study of teaching methods and environment must form a tripod base for education...
...matter and its name was Henry Louis Mencken. Instead of a tidy page full of editorials, letters to the editor, etc., there was just one column of editorials. Where the other six columns have been was a great open space covered with tiny black dots, like the background of a cut-1,000,075 dots in all. In the adjoining editorial the Evening Sun explained that each dot represented one person in the Federal Government's ''immense corps of jobholders. . . . The dots, unfortunately, had to be made very small. . . . Even so, the chart is too large...
...years, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival has been held at Hanover against a snow-white background. Although other New England ski meets have had to be canceled because of unfavorable weather, snow always fell for Dartmouth...