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...Monte Carlo last week death came to the most famous woman composer who ever lived. Frail, white-haired, 86-year-old Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade had been bedridden with a bone disease for more than a decade. Deprived of her royalties by the German occupation (her Jewish publishers in Paris had been liquidated), she died in comparative obscurity. The era that her fragile, saccharine little piano pieces (most famed: The Scarf Dance) represented had long since closed. Hers had been the age of rubber plants, stereoscopic views, and parlor trances over Ethelbert Kevin...
...China's frail and handsome Minister of Education, won a great victory last October. He succeeded in extending his dictatorship over China's thinkers as far as the U.S. In a new set of rules his Ministry declared that a bureau to "guide and control thought and conduct" of private Chinese students studying abroad would be set up in each foreign country. To these thought controllers the students would have to give unconditional obedience and "the moment facts are substantiated and reported to the Ministry that their speech or writing is contrary to the teachings of the Three...
...Bade godspeed to frail, silver-haired Presidential Assistant Lowell Mellett, for six years a zealous New Deal employe, not conspicuously employed since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Mellett, once a Scripps-Howard executive, will pundit a political column for the Washington Star...
...Mother. Frail, fluffy-haired Norah Carpenter, former telephone operator in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, sat up in the tiny bedroom of her miner-father's house. Piled around her were congratulatory messages and neighbors' gifts: diapers, blankets, baby boots and dresses...
Sombre Man. Erect, frail, handsome Edvard Munch came from a family of civil servants, well established in Norwegian cultural circles. A beautiful but weak child, young Edvard stopped school early to study art. He traveled in France and Italy on scholarships, studied under Pierre Bonnard at Paris...