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Carl Milles (born Carl Emil Wilhelm Anderson) is regarded today as the finest monumental sculptor in the U. S. Because his family thought the name Anderson (which sounds to Swedes like "Smith" to Englishmen) was too common, it took for a surname the father's nickname ("Mille"). In Paris he became a friend and assistant to the late Auguste Rodin. After World War I he got a job as professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Stockholm. But the Swedish critics disliked the distortions and fearsome grimaces of his statues, never conceded him a top ranking among Swedish...
From Latin America, NBC averages fan mail of 2,000 letters a month, CBS attracts about 1,000. Other letters come from all over the world. Broadcasting in French, Italian and German as well as Portuguese and Spanish, NBC informed Englishmen that their rations of bacon or butter were to be cut before it was known in London, tipped off listeners in Italy that Mussolini was leaving for Brenner Pass 13 hours before the trip was mentioned in Rome...
...reeling spring of 1940 an Englishman's home was a place of horror. The Nazis were coming. Englishmen, looking at their wives and children, already saw them as corpses. Looking at their leaders, they saw the discredited appeasers, who had promised first peace, then planes and guns, finally failed to deliver either. A little while longer these ghosts of political dead men still squeaked and gibbered in the ministries before Englishmen said in Cromwell's words: "Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God-go!" Then they turned to Winston Churchill...
...RIDDLE OF THE SANDS-Erskine Childers-Dodd, Mead ($2). From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of pre-World War I days. To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen...
...greet you at the beginning of a great career"). John Brown writes his family from prison: "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind." Captain Robert Falcon Scott holds off death in the Antarctic long enough to scrawl: "We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit. ..." Dying, Lenin warns the Bolsheviks to remove Stalin from power before it is too late...