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Professors began taking pot-shots at the cram-parlors, the Administration condemned them as "parasites," and the stage was at length set for the "squeeze play," With the aid of several other publishers and evidence complied by the CRIMSON, Macmillan filed suit against the College Tutoring Bureau for violating the copyright laws...
...abstract sculpture which he forged of iron (TIME, April 22). The inspiration for his medallions came from coins and cylinder seals which he saw in Greece. To convey the classic feeling, he put his initials and inscriptions in Greek letter on some of the medals-but in "Coffee Pot Greek," like a word inscribed on War Exempt Sons of the Rich which spells out "soft cookies." Sculptor Smith calls himself a humanitarian, regards his medals as a purely personal protest against war, which he resents because it may keep him from his work. "War just isn't right anyhow...
Some artists get invaluable publicity from Christmas cards. Dale Nichols hit the jack pot after his The End of the Hunt was put on a card. He got a $4,000-a-year Carnegie Rotating Professorship job at the University of Illinois, and the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan bought The End of the Hunt-although it denies that the Christmas card had anything to do with it. Some other Group artists who, by accident or design, have done cardworthy snowscapes, religious or convivial scenes: Emil Ganso, Doris Rosenthal, Lauren Ford, Henry Varnum Poor, Jozef Bakos, N. C. Wyeth, Aaron Bohrod...
...verbal bullets that tore the air in the Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson campaign made 1940's pot shots sound like popgun plips...
Satire in all its refinements and lack of refinement also went into the pot-crude take-offs on a dictator's pretensions and occupations, neat bits such as a radio commentator's translation of the dictator's oration of hate, one magnificent scene in which Dictator Chaplin lifts a globe of the world from a stand in his office and does a bubble dance, exquisite and grotesque...