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...clear that the world had regained a magnificent pair of pictures, worthy of the great tradition of Giovanni Bellini, and showing a clarity of form and color foreign to 20th century artists. The question was how they had come to disappear in the first place. They were known to have been in the Duke of Norfolk's collection in 1894, when Westminster Cathedral was still under construction. Presumably he gave them to the cathedral, and they lay forgotten for years in the cavernous fastnesses of Westminster...
...high, suffers from several undeniable weaknesses. Because the government must store the food it purchases, the plan is only feasible for non-perishable commodities; livestock raisers, fruit and vegetable growers get uncertain protection. The Secretary of Agriculture may use any extra funds available to buy perishables, but the surpluses disappear during general farm declines...
...While it had meant a cheapening dollar (worth 52? last year v. 100? in 1939), inflation had also spelled more jobs and better living. So when it looked as if the nation's special form of inflation might be halted, people immediately assumed that the good things might disappear as well. No one seemed to want a dollar that was worth more if there were to be fewer of them around. So Humphrey quickly changed his course, assuring the nation of a flexible fiscal policy that would change to the shifting needs of the economy...
Advertising men seem to be equipped with a sort of internal radar. As they pore over radio and TV scripts before they go on the air, the radar sets off a series of alarms-and certain words disappear forever from certain shows. Thus, on Philip Morris' I Love Lucy or the Camel News Caravan no one is ever referred to as "lucky." And on Lucky Strike shows there is never any mention of camels or caravans, of hoards of old gold, or of chesterfield sofas or overcoats. An adman for Chesterfield recently rewrote the lyrics of the show tune...
Fashion Forecast. In London, Reader "J. B." wrote a letter to the Communist Daily Worker condemning workers for wearing trousers, "those symbols of the inequality of women," declared that under Communism, "not only evening dress but trousers too will disappear ... I am already designing a tasteful blanket suitable for both sexes. It [has] no shape...