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...Museum of Modern Art last week sat and lounged all over exhibits and pushed them around with impunity. The visitors enjoyed it because they spent as much time on their rumps as on their feet. The museum did not mind because it was doing its best to boost modern furniture out of the fad stage...
This news gave British morale a boost -too much of a boost, in the opinion of some British leaders. The London Times printed a sober warning...
Says Artist Bruce of his government sponsored hospital hatched boost to U.S. water-coloring: "I am just crazy about the new system. Why, people are buying not for the name but because they like the picture, not as a museum or a collection would buy, but only because the purchaser wants to hang the picture in his room. I have seen much worse pictures in museums. The public is overwhelmingly in favor...
...primary effect of Wallace's conference will be to boost morale in the Nazi-conquered countries. In America it will increase confidence that Rossevelt's promises will mean more than the Fourteen Points in making the peace. Verbose and eloquent promises are easy to forget and to misinterpret--clear, factual agreements publicly issued are hard for even the European masters of verbal gymnastics to pervert. Therefore, the proposals of Wallace and Leith-Ross, if sufficiently just, widely enough publicized, and actually carried out, may mean that the war will not inevitably result in an economically unworkable Europe. With freedom...
Although late registrants may yet boost the enrollments of the three upper classes, it is not expected to be near the number of Freshman late-comers, who have swelled the Yardlings' ranks since last Friday's figure of 997 to the present 1,118. Out-of-course students among the undergraduates number...