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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: "Prelude to History" in the last issue was TIME'S best job-intuitive and crisp. Most of us believe Roosevelt is a great and good man but after all the talk about the horse & buggy it appears in these last weeks as if he had taken us for something of a buggy ride himself. At least it now appears far from a streamlined ride. If the truth be known, most Americans are less deeply shocked by the German strength of arms than by the Allied collapse. This nation is still too young and too vigorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1940 | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...casting into iron). He liked his firedog so much that he kept on whittling, and by 1922 he was a full-fledged sculptor. On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized figure of Washington at Valley Forge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Self-Taught Sculptor | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Director of the worthy ATS is Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (TIME, Oct. 9). Overseas ATS commander (called "Top Ats" by the Tommies) is crisp, efficient Mrs. Kathleen Molly Fuller-Maitland, horsey wife of a major heroically wounded in War I. Last fortnight Mrs. Fuller-Maitland arrived in France with six assistants, including a former parlormaid, to make all ready for her main force to join the B. E. F. One of her first acts was to post a list of rules which ATS must obey at the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Rules for ATS | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...Artist Chapin is no repeater of formulas. In 1929 he left his log cabin and went back to Manhattan. His brush has since touched many another phase of U. S. life-touts, lobster fishermen, subways, baseball players, blues singers, lime kilns, Utah strawstacks. Sometimes his paintings are crisp and tight, sometimes loose and fluid. They are always vital. At 53, an art teacher one day a week at the Pennsylvania Academy, James Chapin is still undogmatic. "We are all students together," says he. "I'm trying to learn how to paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: American Challenge | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...were bowing their appreciation of the audience's very audible approval. At first Vag felt cheated--the music should never have stopped; he should have been allowed to continue musing in this delicious manner. Finally, he forced himself to leave his chair and wander outside--the night air was crisp, the snow was an iridescent mass of white, and a haunting theme kept running through his sleepy mind. Vag went into hibernation to wait for the next Stradivarius concert on March first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/28/1940 | See Source »

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