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TIME'S founders conceived of an Art department which, while performing the function of criticism, would roam over the entire field of art journalism from old masters to contemporary painters. For like nearly every other aspect of each week's important happenings, the news of art is not always to be found in the big galleries, but frequently in alleys and side streets and back rooms like that of M. de Cardonne in Paris...
...begins promisingly as a closely documented account of the rise of a Jewish storekeeper to movie power but quickly subsides to a spun-sugar saga of love, virtue and clever financing, all triumphant. Where Author Robbins writes as chronicler he has interesting things to say; where he begins to function as novelist he is simply depressing...
Some barber shops are apparently destined to be a cut or two above the average tonsorial parlor. It is difficult to compare two places of trade when the primary function of both is to trim one's hair. Maybe it is the clientele one place caters to, its general appearance, or its atmosphere, which enables it to build up a distinctive reputation. But a most unimposing barber shop which keeps in business, and very much so, for 50 years, must have some unique attraction...
...capital. Unlike Paris on London, however, the city is unproductive. Its men of substance are doctors, lawyers, scholars, shopkeepers, or government personnel, but not manufactures or industrialists. Its former marketing and trading revenue is virtually non-existent. The rest of the country cannot support it either in food or function...
Hornig served last year as vice-Chairman of the Council committee which produced the report 'Harvard Education, the student's View.' Because of his work in this line, his function on the Council will be as a co-chairman of the education committee...