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...Thanks ... are due to TIME for reporting the uncovering of a hitherto unknown portrait of that interesting monarch, Henry VIII [TIME, June 30]. . . . TIME slipped, however, in stating that the English collector [Stannard] had "rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even...
...last summer, Stannard had noticed an unimpressive little oil, a landscape set in a fine Gothic frame. He took it home, started scraping away the landscape with his penknife, and came face to face with Henry VIII (see cut). He had rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait...
Hermanns, who is now a professor of languages at California State College at San Jose, delivered what were among the earliest anti-Vichy talks in this country while at Harvard in the summer...
...against which to accentuate its inept statesmanship, its political stupidity, its immorality, social injustice and inequality, the break up of its families and churches, and the pitiful inadequacy of its educational facilities. And their charges are true, but they are not the whole story. From the times of the earliest settlers in Massachusetts, the society of the United States has been built upon the bifurcation of an economic system which emphasizes acquisitiveness and a religion which makes every man his brother's keeper. In the process of conquest of a land of milk and honey the mores and working rules...
TIME'S usually astute radio department should have known better than to have given credence to one of the oldest myths in American radio! This legend has been wished on children's radio entertainers since earliest days of broadcasting. The Uncle Don "incident" story [TIME, Feb. 24] is definitely apocryphal. Don himself recalls hearing the same gag told back in 1926 before he entered radio, as having happened to an Uncle "Gee Bee," a radio uncle on the now defunct New York station WGBS. Incidentally . . . Uncle Don started a new half-hour series on WOR March...