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Only a few, like Webster, still try to stick to the comic strip's old and worthy function: holding a mirror to a recognizable U.S. life. The late Clare Briggs's Mr. and Mrs., as an appreciation of marriage, made books like Cass Timberlane .look as naive as Daisy Ashford. Harry J. Tuthill's remarkable Bungle Family, almost alone among comics, dared to gaze steadily at the plain, awful ugliness and clumsiness to which the domesticated human animal is liable. When you have counted these -and Frank King's mild, wholesome Gasoline Alley, Chic Young...
Other standouts: a competently sumptuous Nude at the Mirror, by Georges Capon; Edouard Goerg's fuzzy, dreamy Midnight Bouquet, reminiscent of the 19th-Century Romanticist Odilon Redon; and Astarté, by André Marchand. Marchand, in his 30s, is considered one of the "younger" painters. His picture of green flesh, black water and blue sand was startling in a show full of surprises. The most surprising thing about it was that he had painted the sky blue...
Humming at their work, astronomers and technicians were busy again at Mt. Palomar Observatory, Calif. The great 200-inch mirror, neglected during the war, was still far from completion. But soon the grinders and polishers would be working at its delicate surface. Meanwhile, a concrete disc of the same diameter and weight (18 tons) was doubling for the mirror in the almost finished largest-telescope-in-the-world, while final tests were made on its intricate controls. In another year, or perhaps two, Mt. Palomar would be open for business...
Prague, abustle with material reconstruction and cultural renaissance, was a mirror of the nation. Life was still conditioned by shortages-in everything from bread to books. But Prague, like most of the country, had escaped with relatively light war damage. It was heady with vitality...
...Sure, you can get all hot and bothered about the race question," says 28-year-old Negro Publisher John H. Johnson. But Publisher Johnson doesn't intend to. His new magazine, Ebony, out this week, will "mirror the happier side of Negro life...