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...affecting picture, Opus No. 1. It was accepted. Artist Billings promptly got some publicity by resigning from the League. His explanation: Opus No. 1 was the result of a deliberate attempt to paint the worst picture, in drawing, design, color and technique, that his ingenuity could devise. "Juries," said Joker Billings, "should be selected who have background enough to distinguish good from bad in modern...
...other widely publicized charges-including the accusations that the majority had concealed records from him and that he had detected a "joker" in a contract signed by Director Lilienthal with Arkansas Power & Light Co.-the chairman would say nothing concrete...
Victims of the carefully planned, hoax of a heartless practical joker, a large number of Business School students spent some very uncomfortable hours yesterday...
...whole matter finally reached a reductio ad absurdum when it was discovered that at least one of the men singled out by the practical joker has been a group one man for two years...
...Ross formula called for power rates high enough to pay 3½% interest on the Government's investment and to pay back that investment over a period of 40 years. In this formula, however, there was a big joker. The Government investment would not be the total cost of the development but only that part allocated to power. The rest would be charged off to flood control or navigation. On the Tennessee River, Wilson Dam, for instance, is valued at $33,000,000 but for yardstick purposes the power investment is considered to be only $22,000,000. Division...