Art: 75,000 Tanks, 414,000 Houses

To see an exhibition as ugly as Sin, as shocking as a Coney Island horror house, small-town mayors, housing officials, clubwomen and school kids trooped into Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. The museum had caged and displayed the "Housing Crime."

As they enter this show visitors are greeted by the insistent voice of President Roosevelt demanding ". . . 125,000 planes, 75,000 tanks. . . ." The voice from the loudspeaker pursues them down a corridor where newspaper headlines blazon the depressing progress of the war. They emerge into a...

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