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...things to paint, Belgian Paul Delvaux liked nothing better than painting naked, big-breasted women on windy beaches, crowded streets and moonlit terraces, among Greek ruins and in Empire ballrooms. Sometimes he showed them stooping to pluck a rose from the floor or from under a passing trolley...
...democracy) hinged on making the Ruhr a going concern. In a peak pre-Hitler year (1929), Germany sent half her exports to western Europe, including Britain and Scandinavia, and most of these came from the great Ruhr basin. The western European steel industry depended on Ruhr coke; Dutch and Belgian ports depended on Ruhr traffic. In a single year the Ruhr produced 128,000,000 tons of coal, 16,000,000 tons of steel, 13,000,000 tons of pig iron. War-ravaged Britain Had neither the food nor the money for quick restoration of the Ruhr's industrial...
...dream school was one of 40-odd schools now being opened in the U.S. zone of Germany for the children of occupation troops. The Berlin school started with about 175 U.S. children (40% of them below fourth grade), and a smattering from the Danish, French and Belgian military missions. In 26 years of school experience, Superintendent Edwin M. Boyne of Michigan had never seen such equipment and such first class personnel. Cost to parents: up to the rank of sergeant, nothing; for all others, $4 per month per child...
There was only one possible method of burial. Sober-faced workmen packed 300 pounds of dynamite to the cliff, tamped it into the rock, set it off. An avalanche rumbled down. As had been done after the recent Newfoundland crash of a Belgian Sabena airliner, a Catholic priest, a Protestant clergyman and a Jewish rabbi read burial services from a plane which circled overhead. Then the wilderness fell silent again...
Like most string quartets, the Paganini has a liberal patron. She is Mrs. William Andrews Clark, widow of the copper-millionaire Senator from Montana. First she engaged Scottish-born Violinist Henri Temianka and Belgian Cellist Robert Maas, then she sent to Brussels for Violist Robert Courte and Violinist Gustave Rosseels. She bought the four Stradivarii, which are insured for $250,000, from a New York dealer. Patroness Clark's quartet has already signed for a Beethoven series at the Library of Congress, and for the opening November concert in Manhattan...