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One of the farmer-artists, Earl Sugden, 56, of Yuba in Richland County, does his landscapes with barn paint, makes his own brushes out of hair from his horses' tails clamped into holders fashioned from old tin cans. Painting is only one of Farmer Sugden's many hobbies...
To the literary, the novels of Upton Sinclair (The Jungle, King Coal, Oil!, Boston, etc.) are not literature. To historians, they are not history. To propagandists, they are not propaganda. But to millions of plain people, they are all three of those things. Of living U. S. writers he has...
This year Disston expects to come close to its 1929 sales record: $12,000,000 (about two-thirds from saws). With a net worth of about $8,500,000, Disston does not tell its profits, is owned lock-stock-&-barrel by the Disston family, who are hardy, friendly, prolific. Six...
For those who stayed tuned in during the war crisis, Then Came War: 1939, a MARCH OF TiMEstyle dramatization (with background by Commentator Elmer Davis) of the ten tumbled days that ushered in World War II, contains little new or startling. But for anyone who wants to keep Hitler'...
The quality which above all others makes Nelson Johnson a really good diplomat is the ease with which he translates his corny U. S. traits into polished Chinese formulas. When he sits down at an important conference with Chinese statesmen, he begins by saying (in Chinese): "Well, boys, have I...