Two great international fairs, each intended to express the most harmonious, inventive, powerful and beautiful elements in U. S. life, each likewise dedicated to the improvement of business in its locality and each scheduled to open in 1939, are now a-building—one on Long Island's Flushing Meadows and the other on a sandy ("Treasure") island in San Francisco Bay. Last week, controversy put them both in the news.
¶ Month ago President Grover Whalen of the New York World's Fair Corporation found himself besieged by Manhattan artists. Their grievance: that the Fair had failed...
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