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...Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article of War). Major Clyde C. Johnston had examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly Field, after he recovered from a broken vertebra, and grounded him for weak eyesight. Pilot Ocker, no friend of Kelly Field's hard-boiled com mander, Lieut.-Colonel Henry B. Clagett, took his re-examination at another field, managed to pass the eye test. Back he went to Major Johnston and, according to the court-martial charges, said: "If other pilots on this field, namely such as Clagett, were given more than a cursory examination...
...army had been wiped out by the Paraguayans with a loss of 15,000 men (TIME, Dec. 25). To the League Commission Bolivia proposed an armistice. The Commission relayed this proposal last week to Paraguay, received a counter proposal for an eleven-day truce which Bolivia accepted. Then the Com- mission wired Dictator Terra and his El Pueblo siren shrieked...
...Chicago Grand Opera Company was born. George Lytton, who died fortnight ago of heart trouble (TIME. Dec. 18), and Banker George Woodruff did the figuring. A five-week season, they decided, could be put on for a little less than $150,000, approximately a third of the Insull com pany's annual deficit. With 75% capacity attendance the box-office takings would amount to $138,500, leaving a $11,500 deficit. With a $75,000 reserve fund they felt they could go ahead. They asked for it, got it. Paul Longone, a dapper little Italian, was engaged as impresario...
...Washington last week a meeting of that committee was held at Artist Bruce's home. On hand in addition to Messrs. Robert and Bruce were Art Critic Forbes Watson as technical director, President Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, Braintruster Rexford Tugwell, CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins. The Com mittee was given $3.000.000 to provide work for 2.500 artists decorating public buildings at the flat rate of $35 per week. It was announced that not only strictly Federal buildings would be decorated by CWArtists but also any or all buildings into which Federal dollars were to be invested...
...middleaged) to take their place: Picasso - he bought his first "Blue Period" Picasso in 1901 - Derain, Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice in a stained glass factory where for four or five years he earned 50 centimes (then about 9?) a week. He studied under the romantic-classical Gérome, William Bouguereau and Gustave...