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...primitively bold way. Part of a set of 13 oils recently discovered in Auburn, N.Y., they went on show this week in a tent on the grounds of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown. Nobody knows who painted them. The artists worked on the scale of the present-day "New York School" abstractionists, for the pictures measure 7 ft. by 10 ft. and up. All 13 pictures (painted on mattress ticking) were commissioned over a century ago by one George Mastin. a Genoa. N.Y. tailor, farmer, phrenologist violin player and horse trader, who exhibited them, together with...
...group of nonmanufacturing industries has grown up and must be counted, notably such huge service industries as airlines and buses, trucks, hotels and entertainment. The booming construction industry is not a factor in FRB's industrial index, though it is one of the greatest strengths of the present-day economy...
...national defense argument used in the Swiss watch case is a timely reminder that present-day support for trade restrictions often has a much broader basis for argument than oldfashioned, McKinley-style business protectionism. Trade barriers sometimes arise out of Socialist concern for national planning and sometimes, as in this case, out of military considerations...
...Christendom's greatest monuments-St. Peter's in Rome-is never quite completed. Among the best present-day artists working to finish it is a self-taught, 45-year-old sculptor from Milan named Giacomo Manzù. Four years ago, Manzù won a competition to do bronze bas-reliefs for the "Doorway of Death" (opened only for funerals) at one side of the Basilica. Now his scale study is at last complete (see cut), and he hopes that by devoting all his working time to the project he will have the doors themselves done in two more...
...regime, for the first time, Communist propaganda began to circulate freely in Guatemala. Young Ladino intellectuals-notably such present-day government advisers as Josè Manuel Fortuny, Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Carlos Manuel Pellecer and Alfredo Guerra Borges-soaked up Marxian ideas. U.S.-educated Maria Arbenz became interested, and she and Fortuny guided Arbenz, no heavyweight thinker, to read some popularized explanations of Communist theory...