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...represented in the show was greying, thickset Fernand Léger, who couldn't be lionized because almost nobody spoke French, but who stood defiantly in the middle of the gallery where his 31 pictures were hung, waved his hands and muttered: "Tout ça, c'est...
...book) by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Simon and Schuster). A new stunt in packaging: the two items, by a pair who have collaborated in other musico-literary ventures, sell for $5 boxed. Miss Castagnetta plays the music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with his usual hen-tracky pen drawings...
...cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed by a reddish pageboy bob, Lily Pons is to all appearances docile, even-tempered: she has all the French virtues, is genuinely kindly and cute comme un bou-ton-mais, zut alors, elle est shrewd, smart and has a will of iron. She has always worked hard, spends months preparing every role she sings at the Met,* is punctual at rehearsals...
...call on the early morning of Aug. 23 when two policemen came to his Paris apartment and notified him to join his unit. "This time," said the officer, "it means business." His wife José, Pierre Laval's daughter, took him to the Gare de l'Est and business began. Business for René de Chambrun was to be conducted with the 162nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels...
...Columbia Spectator, the Teachers Union, a host of other commentators. Said the Rev. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of Manhattan's Community Church: "He has taken Columbia into the European war before the Government has gone in." The New York Herald Tribune hissed: "L'Universite, c'est moil" On the bulletin board of Columbia's Law School appeared a scrawl: "Heil Butler...