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...early Paris canvases through the brightly colored Dutch peasant scenes of the 1900's to the solid portraits of his later work, was never fixed. At the age of 71 he produced a nude study, "Virginia Beach," which the Whitney Museum hung last month with its biennial exhibition of young modernists...
...gloomy inventory of sin and sorrow awaited the attention of the United Lutheran Church in America as it met last week in Philadelphia for its eighth biennial convention. The Church, said its Committee on Moral & Social Welfare, should address itself to the following conditions: "racketeering, gambling, exploitations, bribery, profanity, dissipation, diseases, suicide, sex laxity, lawlessness; organized agencies within society which have in large sections been perverted; infidelity between husbands and wives, disloyalty between parents and children, undisciplined temperaments; racial prejudices: jealousies, greed, grudges between nationalities; the wrong attitude of class toward class in society; great wealth and luxury and abject...
...stern sheets were small King Victor Emmanuel and large Queen Elena of Italy, swathed in pearls. Other gondolas, other barges followed, carrying Princess Maria of Italy, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and other notables. The whole procession debarked at Venice's public gardens to open the 18th Biennial International Art Exhibition and inspect the U. S. building where Ambassador & Mrs. John Work Garrett were waiting to receive...
When Flight Lieut. J. H. Boothman's seaplane flashed around the Calshot course at an average of 340.08 m. p. h. last September, the Schneider Trophy became Great Britain's permanent possession and the biennial Schneider Races were officially ended unless Britain should choose to put the trophy up again.* Already international apathy had all but finished the competition. The U. S. withdrew in 1926. France dropped out for lack of funds last year. Italy's team was so depleted by crashes that it canceled its entry. Even England would have had no entry last year...
...submitted to the States by Congress, the 20th Amendment would eliminate the short ("lame duck") session of Congress which follows every biennial election. Each Congress, instead of waiting 13 months to get to work, would open Jan. 3 after the November voting. The President would be inaugurated Jan. 20 instead of March 4. Congressional sessions, within the two-year term of members, would be unlimited...