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...Velloso, bald Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council, was taken to Manhattan's bosom with a vengeance: a taxi bearing him down Park Avenue slambanged into another, knocked him off his seat. Next day at the council meeting, Delegate Velloso sported court plasters on brow and beak...
...shaking meeting began, UNO seemed oddly like a setting hen with a nest in a threshing machine. It had a place out of the rain, a good food supply and a spot to brood on its clutch of world problems. But UNO seemed almost as preoccupied with keeping its beak out of the big city's machinery as in global meditation...
...recall). We're sure that Dr. Jekyll, or Hyde, or whatever his name is, can do a much better job anyway. Seriously, Larry, good luck. (You'll need it with a guy like Gow for a company commander). Rinetti! Rinetti! Help, Gow's got the beak again...
Between MacArthur and the western end of New Guinea were two Japanese armies at least 100,000 strong: the Eighteenth, under Lieut. General Nijusan Adachi, with headquarters at Madang; the Second, spread from Geelvink Bay to Vogelkop's beak at Sorong. But it was no part of MacArthur's strategy to meet any of these masses headon. His strategy was to fight only as much as was necessary to gain footholds behind them. Then he was behind them and they behind him. Whichever lost control of air and sea was then undone...
Thus last week wrote lively, beak-nosed Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the catalogue of a highly unusual art show. The first big collection of eyewitness war paintings ever shown while the war was still being fought hung in Washington's huge, windowless, marble National Gallery. The 125 paintings, later to tour the country, were part of a large-scale venture unique in unofficial war recording: since before Pearl Harbor, LIFE has been sending artists-all easel painters of standing-to camps, to war fronts and to sea as accredited...