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...Communist Party Central Committee's arts-purger, Andrei Zhdanov, had not yet got around to the subject of painting, but artists could take a hint. On the heels of Zhdanov's blast against "bourgeois decadence" in Soviet music (TIME, Feb. 23), 25 members of the Union of Soviet Artists met in Moscow. Puckery, wavy-haired Union Chairman Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov read the party decree on music. The Moscow Bolshevik reported: "A lively discussion. Various painters pointed out that painters were plagued by the same disease as the composers. They spoke about the remnants of formalism, falsely understood novelty...
...newest sartorial hint on ski garb comes from the sports pages of a national womens' magazine, which tells the saga of Mrs. X., a homebody who whips up her own ski clothes. Mrs. X. combs department store counters for bolts of bizarrely-colored and woven fabrics, waterproofs them by browing them in a potion of wax, and tailors her trousers to size...
...Delaware, one of 17 states with Jim Crow laws, announced that it would admit Negro students to the University of Delaware to any course not offered by the Delaware State College for Negroes. The trustees said they had taken the hint from the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Ada Sipuel case (TIME...
...Sierra Madre" does end happily, but only after one of the characters has been killed and the gold returns to the earth. It is a theme with a number of rather obvious allegorical possibilities concerning the doings of both men and nations, and this unusual picture manages to hint at them painlessly, without verbosity or undue lengthiness...
...dealings with Congressmen, belligerently denounced the Knutson bill as inflationary, deficit-producing and, in short, "a major threat to the nation's financial integrity." Chairman Knutson reacted by subjecting his witness to a day-Jong badgering. Other Republicans were quick to realize that John Snyder was broadening a hint already made by the President: the Knutson bill, as it stood, would be vetoed. Good & scared, they began to talk of bringing the tax slash down to around $4 billion. At week's end, tax-wise Muley Doughton conceded that such a modification might well pick up enough Democratic...