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...from the Louvre in Paris and from half a dozen Italian collectors, Cleveland's paintings made a show more comprehensive and legible than Chicago's two great art exhibits at the Century of Progress (TIME, May 29, 1933; June 11, 1934). Director Milliken's most resounding brag last week was that 28 of his pictures had never before been exhibited in the U. S., including those by Titian, Raphael, Bellini, Lotto, Veronese, Tintoretto, Andrea del Sarto, Holbein, Rembrandt, Terburg and Henri-Julien Rousseau's famed Night of the Carnival, "one of the greatest sensations...
With the Negus heading for parts unknown like Man O' War on the home stretch, the Italians have all but completed their Ethiopian conquest. Only the final overthrow of Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...
...report of a Presidential Board of Review which had approved the Canal for WPA. ("No board of engineers ever exceeded in ability and in training and in experience this special board of review.") He dwelt on the hurricanes which wreck ships going around the Florida Keys. ("I do not brag about those hazards; they are too close to Florida. ... I mention this as a fact.") He concluded: "This project is the mightiest force now available in making the Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of the Western World...
Last week Professor Yerkes announced in Science that the State of Florida has granted a charter of incorporation to the "Anthropoid Experiment Station of Yale University" at Orange Park. Last week was also a good time, decided Professor Yerkes. a reclusive observer, to brag about his 16 "dated chimpanzees." He calls them that because their "ancestry, date of birth and, with few exceptions, developmental history, experience, use in experiments, are matters of reliable record...
Average patrons of the studio are not inclined to brag about attending the courses. On the contrary, secrecy is even maintained among the closest friends. Furtive entrances and exists are made to and from the studio at all times, and by far the busiest hours are around the dusk of the late afternoon. A chance meeting in the studio of a pair of Freshman roommates occasioned no small degree of embarrassment to both parties...