Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RELIEF The world will be even hungrier in 1948 than it was in 1947. The crisis will come next April or May. No one need be surprised at news of famine, near-famine, malnutrition and rations cuts; there has been grim and ample warning. The latest prophecy came last week from. Director General Sir John Boyd Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization who warned, in a year's-end report to the United Nations, that there will continue to be "a food shortage of world magnitude. During the coming year, many in Europe and Asia will die from...
...Berlin, the year's best art exhibition had been the work of a Vienna-born American named Henry Koerner (TIME, April 28). In Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week, Koerner stole the show again. The Whitney's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting was largely a dance of painted shadows: pictures that were either flatly abstract or academically pictorial. By contrast, Koerner's dramatic microcosm of modern life, which he called Vanity Fair, had the power of a compressed reality...
...were beginning to wonder. In Winnipeg, "Mother City" of the Dominion's 350,000 Ukrainians, a man who ought to know charged that what had happened to Mike Moskal and his friends had happened to most, if not all, of the 6,700 odd D.P.s entering Canada since April...
...position of Henry Agard Wallace was much like that of the man who pursued a girl until she caught him. As far back as April, he had flirted publicly with the idea of a third party in '48. He had carried on a cautious courtship all over the U.S. Last week she turned on him and he got a definite proposal...
Ivan the Terrible (Russian). Sergei Eisenstein's strained but fascinating attempt to create a visual equivalent of grand opera (TIME, April...