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Even while the issue remained in doubt, it was evident that the Japanese had outgeneraled the Allies. For the Allies needed to win both battles to chalk up victory; the Japanese needed to win only...
...Archbishop Spellman's chancellor, Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis A. McIntyre, contradicted his superior. Speaking at a Communion breakfast, Bishop Mclntyre denied there was any anti-Semitism worth mentioning. It was just "a stuffed wolf," set up "by paid publicity agents [who] by exaggerating the doodling's in chalk of children playing on the streets . . . conjured up out of their imaginations the phantom of anti-Semitic hate." The whole thing, he said, was "a manufactured movement," created "for the deliberate purpose of besmirching the minority Catholic population...
Picture-of-the-Week: "The Life of Jack London". . . Famous last words: "Gee, honey, I thought you knew I was married" . . . Row K avows Rube Goldberg had been at the blackboard in R.E. the other day--he ran out of pink chalk, however. . . Lowbrow Essay: Snow is little hunks of white stuff, which when warmed...
...plates are so handsome as to prove that, even in reproduction, fine drawings can give a tactile pleasure in addition to their esthetic worth. De Tolnay's definition of drawing includes some forms of watercolor work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth (see cut), and Edouard...
...Salvation Army has come up in the world since then. When Commissioner Parker began his work, social service people considered the Salvationists as human refuse collectors, had slight use for the idea that the Gospel could rehabilitate a man. Not so Convert Parker. He got up early mornings to chalk Scripture texts on sidewalks. He drove brass-headed nails in the shape of large S's into the soles of his boots so that when he knelt in the streets people would be reminded of the Salvation Army. But some people were unregenerate. Mobs often stoned the Salvationists, threw...