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...courage that will win the war, and may He impart to us the wisdom and the vision that we shall need for true victory in the peace which is to come. ..." He stood at silent attention before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier; a bugler sounded taps; a cold autumn wind scattered the notes down the valley that leads to the Potomac...
...recent work a 78½ ft.-by-84¾ ft. canvas entitled Hide-and-Seek. Some spectators thought it looked like a gigantic omelet composed, not of eggs, but of innumerable infants. Others thought the picture looked like a vast translucent cranium containing a number of babies enveloped in autumn leaves, some of the children still foetal, one blue-veined crimson hydrocephaloid boy on its stomach, another urinating. Persistent spectators sooner or later discovered that Hide-and-Seek was a puzzle picture. What gave form to the whole work was a great gnarled tree, whose branches traced the outlines...
...inspiration for puzzle pictures came to Painter Tchelitchew during the summer of 1940 in Vermont. Almost as exciting to gallery-goers as Hide-and-Seek was David and Goliath, just completed. The picture appears to be a highly colored masterly rendering of Vermont in autumn. But ingeniously concealed in the background is the head of Goliath. A tree contains the figure of David. Other outstanding items in the show: a brilliant portrait of Poet Charles Henri Ford with its exquisite hands; an original gouache of Helena Rubinstein, her face covered in sequins and lighted from the front by a splash...
...Between work to be done and a constant stream of important visitors, Franklin Roosevelt, the old warhorse of politics, must have sniffed the autumn air and felt the late-October urge to be out racing through the hustings. The Republicans were on the upsurge; the Democrats were worried; here was a chance to give his magic full play. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to remember that President Wilson had come to disaster when he pleaded for a Democratic Congress in 1918-and to wonder if he could not do better. This, perhaps luckily, was at most only...
...Yenching University, near Peiping, was the biggest, richest and best-equipped Christian university in China. Then Jap soldiers seized its $2,500,000 campus, one of the world's loveliest, put its President J. Leighton Stuart in "honorable confinement." Last week, as it has done each autumn since 1920, Yenching began a new semester-in Free China's Chengtu, 2,000 miles from its old campus. The new Yenching, though it had lost its President, had many of the same faculty and students, the same standards of untrammeled scholarship. Educated Chinese were as elated as Frenchmen would have...