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...During a fortnight of mudslinging, Pecora did his best to turn Democrats against Impy as 1) a turncoat who was simply in the race to split the vote for the G.O.P., and 2) a "cowardly" pretender with no talent for administration. When Impy said that he had spurned Tammany's offer of a $28,000 judgeship to stay out of the race, Pecora's backers lamely cried that just the opposite was true: that Impy had demanded four judgeships, one for himself and three for his friends...
Resplendent in the white uniform of the commander in chief of the Spanish air force, pudgy Generalissimo Francisco Franco set off fortnight ago on a tour of West Africa and the Canary Islands. In Morocco he watched heavily robed native dancers, graciously accepted from Moroccan notables the traditional gift of two camels. At Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canaries, the generalissimo gave an encouraging speech to officers of the local Spanish garrison, told them that the world was beginning to recognize the "reality" of Spain's cause...
...surviving Rembrandt paintings, some 170 are in U.S. collections; he is the nation's favorite old master. A fortnight ago St. Louis announced that it had bought a fine portrait from Rembrandt's last and best period (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week the Cleveland Museum of Art, which had two early Rembrandts already, also bought a late one: Portrait of a Student. In 1910, Banker Otto Kahn paid more than $100,000 to get the canvas from a Leningrad collection. His heirs, who sold it for an estimated $125,000, gave the proceeds to the Metropolitan Opera Association...
...Besides doing his usual chores during the last fortnight, for instance, he gave off-the-cuff talks at two colleges, Wellesley and Holy Cross, and a full-dress formal speech at the New York Herald Tribune Forum at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...amid the shards of a broken Europe. By so doing, it has unquestionably won itself a place in the literary history of the times. But like many another European, including Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Author Gheorghiu now admits that even despair is not without its choices. A fortnight ago, living and writing in a Europe that has ceased to be a concentration camp, he told an American correspondent: "As a European I cannot accept your civilization, but I pray morning, noon and night that, of the two alternatives facing the world today, yours will triumph...