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Most interesting to gallery-goers last week was a roomful of Viking art. How capable Swedish craftsmen had become, thousands of years before the first Viking art keel to cold water, was demonstrated by several shapely, streamlined, finely ornamented axheads of the early Bronze Age. The spiral designs chased on them appeared also on brooches, bracelets, rings, spearheads of the 8th to 11th Centuries A.D. In a glass case all by itself was a Viking drinking horn of heroic capacity, as long as a man's arm, carved from a single piece of wood in the time of Leif...
...popular are the North African bazaars whose keepers seem to scream and haggle the loudest when not flattering and blandishing the most seductively. Especially beautiful are the Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian quarters with their tinkling fountains, warmly atmospheric patios, fakirs and camels. On hot days, Equatorial and Occidental African craftsmen were stinking convincingly last week as they fashioned their wares amid incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest was the civilized white crowd around a coal-black East African Negro cloth weaver who chants a weird native jazz in time with...
Playwright Howard also knows what really keeps the Theatre alive and always will. "We are all," he explained to his brother craftsmen last week, "stage-struck...
...plant and city to city during seasonal layoffs, the automobile industry never had a union worth mentioning until the Blue Eagle was hatched in 1933. The A. F. of L., Homer Martin soon discovered, was really interested only in preserving the power & privilege of its unions of skilled craftsmen, which had no place for the automobile working masses. He went along, nonetheless, and when automobile locals were merged into a United Automobile Workers International Union, he was appointed vice president. Young, educated, eloquent, he was an out-of-the-ordinary Labor leader. Last spring the Union progressives revolted against their...
...guns opened up. signaling the start of long-awaited open warfare between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. With four of A. F. of L.'s vice presidents among them, the national chiefs of ten Federation unions and departments, mostly those including skilled automobile craftsmen, wired General Motors warning it on no account to recognize U. A. W. as sole bargaining agency for its workers...