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...really a representative cross-section of American taste. Organized U. S. artists had boycotted it because the Municipal Art Committee refused to pay artists a rental fee of 1% per month of each painting's value. Selection of paintings had been left to Governors. So scant was official interest in New Hampshire and Louisiana that no pictures were chosen at all from these States. First National had only three abstractions, a few surrealisms, countless landscapes, mostly of each artist's native town, plain, mountain, sierra, river, lake or desert. Overwhelming majority of the artists were entirely unknown, uninspired...
...brilliant sophomore, was another outstanding performer beating Wilbur Woodland in the 1500-meters after uncorking a grueling pace which bettered four minutes for a new meet record. Again in the 800-meters he stepped out to lead John Dorman and Dubie Brookings, his teammates, across the line by a scant margin...
...bare Manhattan studio last week ten very serious young women worked like demons night & day, flinging themselves into the air, jumping frogwise, stomping, crouching, twisting their torsos. All were barefoot, wore scant jersey tops, long trailing skirts. On a chaise longue sat their director, an alert, thin, ashen-faced woman who stopped them abruptly when Anita's arm was too high or Bonnie's feet too far apart. The Martha Graham dancers were rehearsing for one of their periodic Manhattan recitals. Their leader had more in store. This week she was to start on a transcontinental tour...
...seventeen - hundred children whom Dr. Rothney chose as subjects entered school in 1922 at the approximate age of six, graduating in June 1934. In other words they have been "seeking their own way in the world" for a scant year and a half, yet Dr. Rothney asserts confidently that their records up to the present time vindicate his theory. Just why success in life should depend on a boy's employment or non-employment within two years of graduating from high school, Dr. Rothney did not bother to explain...
That a point of such importance to our naval policy and our national appropriations should have received such scant attention in the American newspapers is therefore most surprising. For not only would such a plan bring about a tight rapprochement between Great Britain and the United States, especially in Far Eastern waters, with unpredictable reactions from Japan; but also the present national appropriations for building up the navy toward treaty strength would be vitally affected...