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...amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models. He suffered less mental anguish than many a stockbroker, never experienced creative paralysis. He got nearly everything he went after in his life: fame, social standing, money. A faithful husband and a good father, he poured on to canvas what he took care to moderate in his living; his paintings, which lack the deep grandeur...
...Something besides engines lifted that plane off the ground that night." Most Dutch pilots have had four years of training and they can fly anything. You see them all over Australia, in small, morose, green uniformed groups. Most of them left everything they loved in Java. They ask in anguish: "When do we get something to fly?" One day last week I had lunch with some Australian officers at an airdrome. All they talked about was the Flying Fortress full of Dutchmen who had landed that morning. Long after the Battle of Java, they had patched up a ship which...
Spoonerman, fly-by-night vandal whose trail of filched larders has caused considerable breakfast table anguish, added Leverett House to his list of victims yesterday morning. The 500 spoons he carried off were retrieved in a Leverett lavatory by maintenance men at 8 o'clock...
Cross-Ups. In Philadelphia, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Früs sued a telegraph company for $15,000 for the "anguish" they said they had been caused when Mr. Friis received a misdirected telegram from a strange woman...
...Candle in the Wind" is not a good anti-Nazi play; it is not even good drama. Possibly because it is such an isolated instance in the greater drama of the fall of France, possibly because Mr. Anderson thinks that a vivid setting and screams of anguish from off-stage are all that are necessary to denote Nazi barbarity, but whatever the cause, "Candle in the Wind" is due for quick snuffing in New York...