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...brave deeds along the front and behind both lines-farmers weeping with outraged peasant piety as they destroy their crops; the obscure, invaluable labors of guerrilla warriors and of the ten million who form the labor battalions of the People's Army; the structure and façade of an entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting of party journalists, The Voice of Fighting Russia is a sort of mirror...
Chicago-born, F. P. A. started out as an insurance salesman, switched to newspapering as a result of selling George Ade a fire insurance policy. F. P. A.'s chief equipment was a knowledge of Gilbert & Sullivan, a ready wit, a talent for drawing out other wits' talents gratis. When the Herald Tribune wanted to cut his pay (1937), he walked out, commenting: "They just wanted me to work for less money, whereas I wanted to work for more...
Composer Walton has lived with the celebrated, long-faced Sitwell family; to Sister Edith's verses he wrote Faç;ade, his best-known, though least profound, orchestral work. Driving an ambulance, which William Walton has been doing for more than a year, kept him from hearing the world premiere of his violin concerto, written for Jascha Heifetz and played in Cleveland in December 1939. Fortnight ago, his job kept him from another first performance: his Scapino, a Comedy Overture, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration...
...arty Sierra Madre, Los Angeles suburb, artists painted models in the streets. In front of Portland, Ore.'s handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design...
This week, at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the De Beers collection of modern art was put on public display. The eleven canvases shown had nothing obvious to say about diamonds : most pictured women, one a man with a guitar, one a bunch of flowers, one the façade of a cathedral...