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Last week a new movement was afoot: special "paternity furloughs" for soldiers. President Fernand Boverat of the French League Against Depopulation warned recently that unless more furloughs are given, French children born in 1940 may number only some 450,000. Le Populaire asked: "Will the duration of this furlough be the same for all? A captain gets two or three rations, a colonel gets more. Will officers have a longer leave? If a soldier can accomplish his work in four days, will it be considered that his colonel must expend more effort...
...same room with the Derain painting are other fine examples of nineteenth and twentieth century art. We are fortunate in being able to see. Picasso's portrait of "Fernand Olivier," and find in the treatment of line and the philosophic calm an unmistakable declaration of indebtedness to some of the Chinese artists whose works are exhibited on the floor below. Subtle variations in the width and shape of lines, together with the apparently effortless rendition of form by means of this mode, serve to bring out clearly one phase of Picasso's electicism. Despite the fact that no single part...
...spacious room amplifiers sent the moping or striding music of Bach; the walls were pure white and velvety grey, and on them were displayed 415 items from the Guggenheim collection. Predominant types: the whorls, jackstraws and disembodied eyelashes of Russian Vasily Kandinsky; the massive, machinelike color patterns of French Fernand Léger; the planetary balls and bubbles, interlocking triangles and color spots of German Rudolf Bauer. It was the biggest, smartest, brightest, most expensive exhibition of abstract painting Manhattan had ever seen...
...Fernand Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature and Chairman of that Department, who served in English, French and German universities before he came here, preferred the system used at the University of London where "a special committee, including three 'powers,' authority, election, selection, is formed each time for any nomination of professors...
...Great Waltz (Fernand Gravet, Luise Rainer; TIME...