For the last three years veteran Hearst-writer Copeland C. Burg has doubled on the Chicago Herald-American as art critic and rewrite man specializing in rape & murder. Versatile Newsman Burg also paints, in 1939 had more canvases hung in out-of-town shows than any other Chicago artist. Uneasy has been his job as art critic since last August, when the whole choir of Hearstpapers began to laud Sanity in Art. Last month he stuck his burly neck out by panning Chicago art dealers and citizenry alike, calling a WPA art show the best in town. Last week, on orders from Hearst's California...
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