Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phaidon Press Art Books, Oxford: RODIN ($3); RUBENS ($2.50); MASTERPIECES OF EUROPEAN PAINTING IN AMERICA...
Scandinavia's predicament was reflected by the Oslo Aftenposten, which suggested that the U. S. help Finland with munitions, airplanes and fliers, since "no European State can effectively help Finland." In that the Aftenposten was mistaken. The only State in the world which surely can save Scandinavia from Russian conquest is Germany...
...spinning solos. It had no glittering star like Hollywood's Sonja Henie. But skating fans last week were ready to adopt new ice gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman performs the rare stunt of skating on 18-inch stilts; onetime Minnesota Footballer Heinie Brock...
...Still in rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...
Last year the United States Lawn Tennis Association, embarrassed by European criticism of U. S. "shamateurism" and by U. S. gossip about "professional amateurs," decided to stop these abuses, announced that it intended to clarify and enforce during the 1939 season its moldy Expense Regulations and Eight Weeks Rule (no player shall receive traveling and/or living expenses for more than eight weeks in any one year). Last week the U. S. L. T. A. surprised the tennis world by suspending from amateur competition pending a hearing two of its most famed players: square-headed Gene Mako, doubles partner of Donald...