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Wehle, set out among the art galleries to select a half-dozen U. S. painters. They must be i) not too advanced for the Board of Trustees' cautious taste, 2) advanced enough to disarm newspaper accusations of over-caution, 3) sponsored by the right art dealers. Art dealers are not supposed to bid against a museum, but they have broken the rule in the past few years. Hence the Metropolitan is not friendly toward dealers, except two classes: the dignified old dealers like Macbeth and the very young, radical galleries not likely to want the same pictures...
...Negro from Marshall's Corner N.J. had not decided to get out of his truck and relieve himself in the woods a mile from Hopewell last week, a half-dozen accredited negotiators and a hemisphere's police would still be looking for kidnapped, murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Government 19 is a study of the development of the American constitution, based on the case system. There are no lectures, but the course meets three times a week to discuss the half-dozen or so cases which have been read. The course is arranged topically-that is, cases are grouped under such headings as "Due Process of Law" or the commerce clause, and so on. Professor Yeomans, who is in charge, has the ability to conduct discussion toward a definite aim, while yet allowing freedom, and, as the opinions of the Supreme Court justices are often so very well...
Splendor, Majesty 8 Fellows? Not vastly different from its predecessors. iQ32's circus is bigger & better?by the addition of a half-dozen more elephants, one rhinoceros, a few other animals and several acts. This year of Depression the Ringling-owned Robinson and Sparks circuses will not perform. Their properties have to some extent been apportioned among the four other shows: Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, Hagenbeck-Wallace and Al G. Barnes. Throughout the spring and summer these four circuses will play an average of five days a week (twice a day) throughout the U. S., the big show...
...half-dozen recent debunking farces about heroes, press-agents and high officialdom echo through Happy Landings, but several sequences-notably the one in which the 'leggers and the Moca-loca magnate get the hero to endorse Prohibition- engender good-humored laughter...