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Died. Arthur Greenwood, 74, treasurer of Britain's Labor Party, for 37 years a top figure in British Socialism; after long illness; in London. Dour, scholarly Greenwood, known because of his encyclopedic knowledge as "The Human Blue Book" was Minister without Portfolio in Churchill's wartime coalition Cabinet (1940-42), served Labor governments as Minister of Health and Lord Privy Seal, turned down a viscountcy because of his distrust of hereditary titles...
...Gold! It's Gold!" Flaubert's simpletons are a Mutt & Jeff pair. François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard is fat and gay, Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet thin and dour. When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables." Pan and brush in hand, Pécuchet tramps the roads for fertilizer. When others contemptuously hold their noses, Bouvard cries, "But it's gold! It's gold!" Too much "gold" burns out the strawberry patch...
I.C.I, and its current boss, Dr. Alexander Fleck, a dour Scottish chemist who took over the chairmanship last July, think that the argument is poppycock, have recently issued a booklet defending the company's position. Says Fleck: "Private enterprise has . . . enabled our organization to grow in a way which is vigorous, resilient, progressive and effective." He points to the fact that I.C.I, spends $10 million a year on research alone, has upped postwar plastic production 210%, and already has spent almost $400 million for new capital construction in the United Kingdom since 1945. With their new program, Fleck...
Mary Cassatt's closest male friend was also her master, Edgar Degas. If she never equaled that dour misogynist as an artist, she came close enough to earn a place as the best woman painter America has produced. A rich, aristocratic Pennsylvanian, she spent almost all her adult life laboring at her profession in Paris. Though she hobnobbed with the impressionists, the tall spinster never painted a landscape. People offered more of a challenge, she felt. Cassatt was an austere sort alto gether; she once turned John Singer Sargent from her door because he had done such a "dreadful...
Officials doubt that the horse climbed the staird himself, and head proctor Michael Koplluor suspects it was the work of a prankster. "I don't think it's very funny," said one dour officer who was rousted from bed to help remove the beast...