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...Freda Kirchway, the editor of the Nation, Clark left college last February to go with the British American Ambulance Corps to serve with the Free French forces of General do Gaulla in Africa. Hosting also was a member of the Ambulance Corps, which was to disembark at Capetown and proceed by other to French territory...
Clark, son of Freda Kirchwey, the editor of Nation, will learn first aid, radio work, mechanics, and military drill and then leave about the first of March on an Egyptian boat for Mombasa, Kenya, on the east coast of Africa. During the 45 day voyage, he will receive further instruction in desert warfare...
...from Nazi-occupied Czecho-Slovakia and The Netherlands: slight, balding Klaus Mann, son of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Thomas Mann. Editorial advisers include such refugee notables as Dr. Eduard Benes, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, such native littérateurs as Playwright Robert Sherwood, Newsman Vincent Sheean, Editor (of The Nation) Freda Kirchwey, Taletellers Stephen Vincent Benét and Sherwood Anderson...
About their first twin exhibition at Carlen's Freda was "thrilled," Ida was "thrilled." They had typical duplicate canvases of the same subject, a Negro named George. The difference between them was mainly that Freda painted only the head, called it Negro Head, while Ida painted a half-figure, called it George. Also in the show were a good watercolor portrait of Mama Leibovitz by Freda, oil portraits of Freda & Ida by each other, many a picture done in Mexico last summer-where both girls managed to travel on a one-man scholarship...
...acquired a good technical foundation, needed to develop a personal expression. They may well accomplish that. Shortly before their show opened, they began studying (free) at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., directed by Dr. Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who takes as students none but the best. Said Freda, "We'd never seen a collection like it before. We'd never had the influence of the French Impressionists. It's almost breath-taking." Ida: "Now we're getting a new slant on art. It's invigorating...