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Last week, with its big show drawing to a close, things were looking up for Tournai's present-day artists and craftsmen. The Belgian government had given Tournai tapestrymakers a 3,500,000-franc order, a new ceramics industry was being planned, the bell foundry was negotiating for a couple of big U.S. orders...
...possible that present-day art has little esthetic value; but he who sees in it only a caprice may be very sure indeed that he has not understood either the new art or the old. Evolution has conducted painting-and art in general-inexorably, fatally, to what it is today...
...South Africa as it looked to 53 of the Dominion's own painters and sculptors. For historical background there were a score of 18th and 19th Century canvases which showed glimpses of South Africa's colonial past. But most of the work was by contemporaries and reflected present-day Africa-its raw, green hills, adobe towns and sprouting cities...
...Manhattan this week Philco Corp. came out with its version of the built-in aerial. It would work, said Philco engineers, in about 80% of present-day receiving locations. Just in case the saving on installation costs was not enough, Philco at the same time cut prices sharply. Sample result: last year a consolette with a 72-sq.-in. picture cost $439.50 plus installation fee; this year a full console with a 97-sq.-in. picture cost...
...operate, the new locomotive puts out twice as much horsepower as a diesel of comparable size. G.E. and Alco hope to develop a gas turbine-electric unit that can run economically on coal, and will need overhauling only after 15,000 hours of operation (three times as long as present-day diesels). G.E. and Alco think that someday the gas turbine-electric engine may replace the diesel...