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Professional Fun. Sloan never sold a painting until he was 49. In a book of notes entitled The Gist of Art, Sloan hammers home the point that art is a life, not a living: "The only reason I am in the profession is because it is fun. I have always painted for myself and made my living by illustrating and teaching. Some of the etchings and a few paintings made 20 years ago sell now and then, but ... if what I am doing now were selling I would think there was something the matter with...
...Jean Monnet and Britain's Sir Edward Plowden were chosen to allocate fair shares for all. Last week the Three Wise Men, as their NATO colleagues have dubbed them, made their recommendations to the Temporary Council Committee (the Twelve Apostles), on which all NATO members are represented. Gist of the Wise Men's report: ¶I The U.S., Britain, Portugal and Iceland (which has no army) have budgeted a "satisfactory" expenditure for defense. ¶ The other NATO allies can do better. Specifically, Belgium ought to spend 50% more and Denmark 40% more; these two countries have the highest...
General Van Fleet's headquarters had issued an order, the gist of which was: don't shoot unless you are shot at. It would have been better if the Eighth Army commander had called U.N. newsmen in beforehand, and told them what he was doing instead of letting them draw their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from...
...Cleveland last week a group of presidents and trustees assembled from small colleges all over Ohio set out on a special mission. During the next few days, they will call on 150 local businessmen, and for each they had the same appeal. Its gist: Ohio's private colleges need the help of Ohio industry if they are to survive...
...estimate of the situation. But the Japanese, old hands at spying on their Far Eastern neighbors, have lately been piecing information together-from agents, from returned Japanese P.W.s, occasionally even from clues dropped at sake parties by members of Tokyo's normally close-mouthed Soviet diplomatic mission itself. Gist of this information: the U.S.S.R. has assembled a massive military striking force in Siberia, trained and equipped for offensive operations. They might well be intended for use against Japan and, possibly, Alaska. Equally important, the Russians have been patching up their industrial weakness in this area by constructing a network...