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...high in religious interventionism was set last week by the fourth biennial Williamstown Conference,* which drew 850 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders to Williamstown, Mass. last week to discuss "The World We Want to Live In." No votes were taken, but anti-Hitler sentiment ran so strong (particularly among the Jewish delegates) that a ballot might have revealed an actual majority for a shooting...
General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff and field commander of the Army, last week made the plea that no politician had dared to make. In his biennial report, publicized with plenty of Page One fanfare, he asked...
John Steuart Curry, Thomas Benton, John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook and many another headliner of U. S. art last week exhibited canvases in the biennial show of Washington's Corcoran Gallery-for the biggest cash prizes ($5,000 worth) any U. S. artist can hope to win. But the first prize ($2,000) went to a comparatively unknown painter named John Edward Heliker, 31. Painter Heliker's only art training had been a few months discursive study at the Art Students League in Manhattan. He had lived most of his life on his father's farm...
...life; for the second year in a row; outshining 2,547 rivals; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. With rosettes aplenty, five-year-old Brucie will show no more, "except where he never has been shown before." >Dimpled Mary Rose Thacker, 18, of Winnipeg: the biennial North American ladies' figure skating championship; for the second successive time; by a wide margin over Toronto's Eleanor O'Meara and Norah McCarthy, who placed second and third respectively; on the blue ice of blue-blooded Philadelphia's Skating Club and Humane Society. Only one American placed among...
...Lewis' United Mine Workers soon holds its biennial elections. He is the only candidate for U. M. W. president...