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Whenever long-bearded Leonardo put chalk or quill or silverpoint* to paper, he produced pictures more subtly and precisely finished than most modern "masterpieces." Da Vinci knew how good his drawings were, hoarded the odd scraps carefully. Mostly quick studies of things which interested him, they showed that the giant of the Renaissance was as much scientist as artist...
...good many targets-narrow nationalism, diehards, politicos of both parties, Labor's internal squabbles, power politics and smoke-filled rooms, a lazy electorate. But it has its fun with its upstanding hero too. Grant Matthews has ego as well as earnestness; he wobbles as well as walks chalk. Involved with a lady newspaper publisher, he has to hurry back, as a prospective candidate, to the wife who still loves him. Cleverer and stronger-minded than he is, Mary Matthews, like Maggie Shand in Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, does for her husband what he fancies...
Last week into the sedate Green Room of the White House marched Gussy and Senor Ramos. The room had been fitted out with blackboard and chalk. Mrs. Truman still wanted to learn the language of Good Neighborliness. Among other scholars who will gather at the White House at 11 every Monday morning: Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, Miss Florence King (daughter of Fleet Admiral Ernest), Mrs. Robert Patterson, Mrs. James F. Byrnes...
Three miles beyond, the DC2 landed. There PerAlemánn learned that the fighter pilot had been killed. Said the Strong Man, chalk-white and shaken: "We have been born a second time." Later he took a train back to Buenos Aires, where imaginative Argentines, with no foundation in fact, were already calling the fallen pursuit pilot a home-grown version of Japan's Kamikaze pilots. One proposal that was bandied about: a monument to the man who had scored a near miss...
...Philippine school buildings survived the years of war (and the best of those that were left had been taken over for hospitals and by the Army). Some classrooms had neither desks nor chairs. Few pencils, little paper and no chalk was to be had. The books that remained were encrusted with the pastemarks of Japanese censors. This was the Filipino education picture last week, as tens of thousands of children went back to school for the first time since the Jap occupation...