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...well-publicized exhibition in 1933, Sterne spent more & more time in the U.S. He painted a series of murals for the Department of Justice building in Washington, found himself represented in 16 U.S. museums, including Manhattan's Metropolitan, and the owner of a summer cottage on Cape Cod and a house in suburban Mount Kisco...
...remembered distinctly that it had something to do with Massachusetts schoolchildren. Finally the truth emerged: the rock was to be donated to U.N. by the World Friendship Council (an organization devoted to amity of moppets everywhere). The Council in turn got the rock from Charles Henry Davis, a Cape Cod millionaire and idea man, last heard of when he proposed that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill, with a beacon in the form of a lighted cigar, be erected at Dover (TIME, July 29). When Donor Davis heard of the mixed reception awaiting his rock in New York...
Like cullers grading a catch of salt cod for market, Newfoundland's National Convention sifted forms of government. The 45 members (TIME, July 8) drew their $10 to $15 a day apiece, and took their time. For six months they bickered and bantered on everything from relief to roads, from fish to politics. Then last month the Convention decided that it needed more information. It picked a six-man delegation to talk over with the British Government 1) a return to full self-governing dominion status, or 2) a retention of the present seven-man Commission of Government. Then...
...graceful glide got me functioning. But then I got an attack of nerves. We twirled, or rather we tried, but my knees buckled. They just weren't up to it. I caught my breath as he swung me again. Then, I sort of stiffened up like a cold cod. Then, I almost bit my tongue and then, thank goodness, the music stopped...
...Boston reacted with cod-like calm when the Duotone Sound Laboratories decided it was the quietest city in the U.S. But citizens of Los Angeles, which was second, and New York, which was third, could hardly believe their ears...