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Painter John Decker may score in Fowler's book for his good cooking, but on the day I visited his studio he had an open can of some foodstuff . . . the blue and white label read "Fix FOR HUMAN USE." It was issued by the WPA. The dark walls of Decker's depressing menage were covered with "brown-sauce" paintings-one of which was Queen Victoria with a W. C. Fields head [see cut]. Another, after Da Vinci, had Fanny Brice's face...
Another Kind of Fix. They also refused to give up hope. After the U.S. Government broadcast their story to the world, the Georgescus redoubled their efforts to rescue their sons. They had help. Ohio's Congresswoman Frances Bolton approached Russia's Andrei Vishinsky at a U.N. reception in New York. She got nowhere. "Oh," said Vishinsky, "Rumania is not my country." But she did not give up, took the Georgescus to see Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith. As a result, a personal letter from President Eisenhower was delivered to Rumanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last February...
...with the conviction that "man, nature and evil powers" are all plotting against him, and that to survive he must be "sullen, suspicious and constantly on guard." His friends and neighbors feel much the same way, but they have discovered that the best antidote to gnawing fear is to fix their minds on a favorite obsession...
...peace in the Middle East. From the Jordan delegates sitting on his left and the Israelis on his right came a steady barrage of accusations and complaints. Commander Hutchison, chairman of the U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission, tried patiently to winnow the facts from the frenzy. The problem was to fix responsibility for the cold-blooded massacre of eleven Israelis at Scorpion's Pass (TIME, March...
...Federal Trade Commission last week dropped monopoly complaints against Joseph E. Seagram & Sons and Schenley Industries after they signed consent decrees. Under the agreements, subsidiaries of either of the companies are forbidden to band together to fix prices or otherwise restrain trade among themselves, even though it might be all in the family. The ruling means that price-fixing agreements by different branches of a corporation are legal only if those branches are set up as divisions, as in General Motors, not as separate corporate subsidiaries...