Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations in the person of grey-haired, ruddy-cheeked Sir Eric Drummond. As Secretary General of the League from its founding until he resigned amid widespread regret two years ago, this British Ambassador to Rome is ripe with "The Spirit of Geneva," "The Spirit of Locarno" et...
...prior to the anniversary celebration, King Fuad's son, solemn Crown Prince Farouk, 15, said good-by to his four small sisters, left the royal palace at Alexandria to be trained as a British army cadet at Woolwich. Few schoolboys ever had a more impressive sendoff. At Ras-et-Tin Palace, British High Commissioner Sir Miles W. Lampson was on hand for a farewell handshake, a bit of fatherly advice. In a glittering barouche behind an escort of Egyptian lancers the dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded the British light...
Youngest daughter of famed Swiss Composer Ernest Bloch (TIME, April 23. 1934 et ante). Lucienne Bloch was born in Geneva in 1909. Her first ambition was to be an Alpinist. She never thought of being an artist until at the age of 11 she suddenly began illustrating "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat." Father Bloch, delighted, bought her a paint box, later sent her to the Cleveland School of Art. In Europe she first studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle, then painted at the Beaux Arts, felt acutely uncomfortable with both. It was only when she went to Rome that...
Back in the U. S. she met paunchy Diego Rivera, begged his permission to grind colors, become his assistant. She worked with the Mexican muralist on his Detroit Art Institute fresco before helping him with the fresco fiasco of Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933 et ante). It was Lucienne Bloch, as Rivera's official photographer, who took the only pictures of the completed mural before it was ordered destroyed. A few friends call her Lucienne; a few call her Luce. She hates Lucy, prefers the simple, abrupt "Bloch...
...infantile paralysis season. For the next six or seven months parents may rest easy on that score. With the danger period behind them, doctors reviewed just what they had accomplished in 1935 with a disease which made epidemic headlines during the past summer (TIME, June 24, et...