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...Museum of American Art. Stodgy Director Edward Robinson of the Metropolitan died, to be succeeded by the more liberal Herbert E. Winlock. Still the Museum of Modern Art grew and prospered, gained much prestige and more publicity with its loan exhibitions of almost everything from Henri Matisse to modern kitchen utensils. But it still owned no important pictures. In 1931 Miss Bliss died, leaving the bulk of the pictures she had been buying since the Armory Show to the Museum on condition other members raise an endowment fund of $1,000,000 (later reduced to $750,000) to care...
...last week some 7,000,000 U. S. farmers came in from their chores, stomped their feet, dropped their mittens and sat down by their kitchen stoves to warm their frost-nipped hands. That day no kitchen stove in the U. S. could have thawed out the icy tongues of politicians in Washington. Politicians profess to love nothing better than a good political issue. The best political issue in a decade had just been tossed to them when Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts tore the AAAct into bits (TIME, Jan. 13). Yet the tongues of politicians were frozen stiff...
...spend $700 for an evening dress, or to buy a dozen hats on one shopping tour. But she was just as likely to closet herself, spend hours reading her Bible or writing voluminous letters crammed with Biblical quotations. On frequent occasions she would stride into the kitchen, undertake to cook a meal on which she would spend as much dramatic energy as if she were singing some new role for thousands of onlookers. Thereafter she would take to her bed for a day to recuperate. Her rule while at the opera house was never to go out the day before...
...brother and two young friends, she left it, went to Childs Restaurant for supper. On the way out, the four discovered they had no money. "We'll wash dishes for our supper," announced Medora. The manager wrung his hands, pointed out that he already had a professional kitchen staff. The determined four marched into the kitchen, seized mops and began swinging them under other diners' feet. Hovering unhappily, the manager suggested that the two girls were getting their gowns dirty, that Childs was willing to forget the whole thing if they would leave. "No charity," asserted Medora. Finally...
...still don't always have things hot when served," said Mrs. Roosevelt wistfully, "but we hope that the new devices will take care of that when the kitchen staff learns how to operate them...