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...warm, so confident, so familiar. English friends, Frenchmen in England or in the United States, speak to us, keep on speaking to us; we listen with fervor, often with the greatest emotion. Our confidence, our hope in you is enormous. No, France will not die. Help her, we beg...
...more artists go to U. S. colleges, hired sometimes as teachers, sometimes just to paint while students watch. This fall sees a new crop of artists going to college. Some universities, like Iowa with Grant Wood. Wisconsin with John Steuart Curry, have put their painters on the payroll. Others beg for them, as they might beg for cinema projectors or laboratory equipment, from Carnegie Foundation. Since 1938 this organization has supplied a dozen artists in residence, with an average $1,500 for their keep, to colleges which it prefers to be smallish, inland. The lot which Carnegie doled out this...
...church bells. In the town of Vizeu a crowd of buzzing parishioners surrounded a truckload of paintings, for two days refused to budge. To get a strong-faced portrait of St. Peter out of São João, the Minister of Education had to go in person, beg its release in the name of the Government...
...does hereby reaffirm its belief in the honesty and integrity of Brother William Bioff. . . ." Dusting out of Louisville, Mr. Green rushed to New York City to beg the gar ment makers (International Ladies' Garment Workers Union) to come back into the A. F. of L. fold. President Dubinsky's terms for rejoining: i) elimination of the penny-a-month tax which...
MANY PARISHES INVADED CHURCHES BOMBED OR BURNT. . . . PASTORAL FAMILIES RUINED. BEG HELP AMERICAN CHRISTIANS...