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...Balder the beautiful...
Last week Munich saw the first comprehensive show of new German art since the war. Held in Hitler's onetime headquarters, the massive FÜhrerbauhaus, it contained not a single blond Balder, buxom BrÜnnhilde or veiled Valhalla of the sort Hitler had liked to see. There were few still lifes or portraits either, and surprisingly few bitter or tragic pictures such as George Grosz and Kathe Kollwitz had made between wars. Instead of all that, the best young German painters were doing abstractions, by the acre...
...Sardar Balder Singh. In the plane's third row sat Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India. For three years he had been trying to bring Nehru and Jinnah into agreement, now, with the peace of India hanging by a thread, they were a yard apart in space, politically as remote as ever...
...some of it of first interest. But not since the days of Quincy Howe's England Expects Every American To Do His Duty has anyone tried to tie a fancier assortment of knots in the British lion's tail. Stalin and Molotov could hardly have made a balder plea for the U.S. to ditch the British...
Back in civvies, looking fit if slightly balder, and lacking the famous cigar, Harlow bantered with newsmen about who-is-where in the global war. Asked about chances for men whose football was interrupted by the war, Harlow said that the whole All-American team immediately after the last war was from the AEF. "The average football player will play better ball after he's out of service, I think," Dick said...