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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life of Eire's great Poet William Butler Yeats (died 1939, at 73) was a wild-goose chase after poetical wisdom-a chase that did not end before the goose was caught, cooked and eaten. How Yeats swallowed his bird-beak, bones and feathers-he has told in detail in his classic Autobiography. How the meal sat on his stomach is made plain in his motley, fearful, sometimes scabrous, more often superb Last Poems & Plays...
...round out the Army and Navy to his new scale would cost uncalculated billions more. Even his $1,182,000,000 was bound to mean 1) new taxes, or 2) lifting the present debt limit of $45,000,000,000. Yet Congress last week boggled only at a detail: whether to give...
...Industrial Exhibits generally are 1939 all over again in theme, but some are new in detail. Typical changes: General Motors put more local, authentic scenery in its vast Futurama; Westinghouse's robot has an electrified dog to keep him company, its Microvivarium (kills germs with sterilizing rays) has been renamed Micro-blitzkrieg. Brand-new: Henry Ford's A Thousand Times Neigh, wherein a synthetic horse comes back to report on the evolution of the automobile; Du Font's Nylon factory...
Died. Harry Willson Watrous, 82, meticulous painter, noted for highly finished 16th-Century saints, microscopic in detail, onetime (1933) president of the National Academy of Design; in Manhattan. A practical joker, he terrified the Lake George colony in 1904 by a hippogriff-a cedar log fashioned into a sea serpent...
...everyday citizens. The films are all about the same, and all good. Sometimes the plots are too ambitious, involving the elaborate business deals of J.C. Dithers, Dagwood's boss, with Blondie always saving the day. That is the main trouble with this installment. But in the treatment of detail and atmosphere, it is like all the rest, superb. Art critics seeking modern American genre are missing a promising field if they do not consider this unpretentious product of Hollywood...