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While 1,500,000 Nazi youths and party functionaries staged the world's greatest political circus, the annual Nürnberg Parteitag (see p. 20), last week 750,000 Soviet youths were putting on their own show in Moscow. The occasion: the 24th observance of International Youth...
...artistic life of Holland, Jan Vermeer of Delft, who was to become the most finished realist of the Dutch School, was just nine years old. Last fortnight, visitors at a far greater fair-Queen Wilhelmina's Jubilee (TIME, Sept. 12)-found Rotterdam again furnished with pictures, and the greatest attraction of all was a painting by Jan Vermeer. Displayed among 450 Netherlands-owned masterpieces at the Boymans Museum, Christ at Emmaus (see cut) is no drollery but one of the three religious paintings ascribed to the artist. To Netherlanders who know their Vermeer it had as much novelty...
...handicap ratings of ten goals, the game's highest rank. One of the first ten-goalers was Thomas Hitchcock Sr. (1894, 1900, 1901), who captained the first U. S. team that challenged England for the Westchester Cup. Tommy Jr. has been ranked at ten goals for 16 years-greatest feat in polo history...
Capable of the greatest excitement over either business or fun, tall (6 ft.), heavily handsome President Paley has run through watercolor painting, oil painting, motorboating, airplanes, photography in rapid succession. He rushes at business with the same enthusiasm, somewhat deceptively because the impetuosity breaks down into shrewd caution whenever necessary. When anything important is at stake he chooses his words with astute grace, but he prefers the free extravagance of mixed metaphors. A favorite phrase: "Not a red dime." Youngest and oldest chief executive in the network business, he has come a long way from cigars. He now smokes cigarets...
...invested in the U. S., second only to Great Britain-became fourth biggest U. S. customer (after Great Britain, Canada, Japan). Instrumental in arranging the trade pact was a close-cropped Knight of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer Pieter Jacob Six, owner of the world's greatest collection of Rembrandts, four of them portraits of members of his own family. Jonkheer Six likes to point out that both the U. S. and Holland are creditor nations, that their trade needs complement each other. Last January he and Dr. E. H. von Baumhauer went to the U. S. to see about forming...