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...with the U. S. Painters like Grant Wood use a clear sauce distilled from 14th-Century Italian primitives. Painters like Thomas Benton use their own highly flavored, homemade ketchup. One painter who presents the U. S. scene without trimmings is Minnesota-born Arnold Blanch, 26 of whose bleak, overcast landscapes and figure-paintings drew Manhattan's gallerygoers last week to the Associated American Artists' Galleries...
Today, says Teague, "... We find ourselves at the end of a long term that has been very much like war: a century and a half of turmoil and confusion, suffering and bleak unloveliness, a turbulent period filled with the unhappiness that is inevitable when basic readjustments of human living are being effected...
Prophet Smoot's bleak words were timely because in Washington last week Congress unlaced its economy corset, began to fling about the taxpayers' money. Fired by the Senate's prodigal example in upping the farm bill to a juicy billion dollars (TIME, March 18), the House set upon the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, upped...
...stock, the News was $15,000 behind in its payments to Mrs. Milton, its bonds had been in default for nearly six months, entitling the bondholders to take control. Mrs. Milton's attorney, Sam J. McAllester, was secretary of Roy McDonald's grocery chain. One bleak day last December, Lawyer McAllester told Milton that a sale had been arranged for the News and accepted by the bondholders' committee. Purchaser: Roy McDonald...
GOLGOTHA, Apr. 9, A.D. 30.-This bleak suburb of Jerusalem, scene of the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth last Friday, became the center of excited interest today. . . . Hordes of spectators, many of whom were present at the death of him who claimed to be the Jews' Messiah, roved curiously over Calvary Hill. They had come to view the wreckage left by the disastrous earthquakethat accompanied the prophet's last hours...