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...portraits by a small, kinetic, kinky-haired Pole named Stanislav Rembski. Most of those who accepted the invitation, however, went less to see a slick icy canvas of Dr. Frank Damrosch or a promising self-portrait of the artist than to have a good long look at a brand new picture of a smiling, self-confident, wispy-haired man of 45 in a blue serge suit. For the past two and a half years that man has solaced thousands of uncertain minds by broadcasting homely advice as THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE. His sponsors over the Columbia network: Wasey Products (Musterole...
...were coming, he did, however, have the bathroom at Compton Place repainted. Fabulously rich, he owns an emerald two inches long, 186,000 acres, palaces galore. Last week Their Majesties, who are far from considering their Daimler limousine a foul, stinking thing, motored down to Compton Place where a brand new police box had been established. A special post office was put into operation to handle the Royal mail. Apart from this George V made no changes or modernizations in archaic Compton Place except to have installed his favorite seven-valve (tube) radio set, especially brought down from Buckingham Palace...
...meat. Every family head owns his own plot of ground, contributes a tithe of his produce to the community and seven days' labor a year to public works. Equal suffrage was instituted long before any European nation had it. School attendance is compulsory. Each family has a brand with which it marks all its possessions, animate and inanimate. The local government consists of a council of seven headed by a magistrate. There is no such thing as money, and only occasional mail from the outside world...
...process of making one into the other is the trade secret of artists, but on each book, picture, statue is the trade-mark of the maker's tools. The smoothly machined product of such novel-factories as Edna Ferber needs no watermark: consumers know it is standard brand, Grade B entertainment, an honest product sold for an honest price...
...produce a new social and economic order, affecting everyone's method of earning a living. Under AAA and FERA farmers and the unemployed discarded old cards and drew new ones from the same old political pack. Only under NRA was the old pack thrown away and a brand new one brought forth. From it alone was dealt a completely new set of rights, rules and institutions to all industry and labor...