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Traveling fellowships went to Francis W. Cleaves 5G, of Needham Heights; and to Tu-chien Weng 3G, of Peiping, China...
...week had Japan guessing whether the chief of their Air Force was still Mme Chiang Kaishek, or whether the job had passed to her brother, T. V. Soong, or whether- according to the last of three equally flat and contradictory Chinese announcements -the new Chief is anti-Communist General Chien Ta-chun. Reds call him "Bloody Chien" for his ruthless suppression of the 1928 Communist uprising at Canton and the 1929-30 Communist uprisings at Changsha...
Other recent acquisitions are the Peiping Chien Pu, a collection of Oriental writing paper decorated with beautifully colored prints, and the fireproofed rare-book room which now safeguards the precious Buddhist Sutra (Bible...
This week three fresh Chinese divisions from Nanking, defending the great supply base and military junction of Shihkiach-wang under General Cheng Chien, Chief of the Chinese General Staff, claimed to be holding out against "Japanese onslaughts so terrific that the Huto River is literally running with blood." Tokyo officially claimed to have taken Shihkiach-wang. Japanese war correspondents lyrically compared the action to "General von Mackensen's crossing of the Dunajec in the World War," prematurely boasted "this seals the fate of North China...
...extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films: Le Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which are thrown...