Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorothy Brett, brown-eyed, bustling, British-born artist who painted eleven eerie portraits of Leopold Stokowski for which he never sat (TIME, May 8), was refused permission by her subject to hang them in Manhattan's City Center. Said Stokowski: "They are too, too fantastic-too imaginative for the Center." But he admitted he liked them, consented to have them displayed for art lovers at Manhattan's Norlyst Gallery...
...officer candidate schools. Graduates of officers' schools would have to spend another year on active duty, keep alert, from then on, with correspondence courses and short annual periods of soldiering in the field. Most would go on the inactive list at 30, although the Army would hang onto tiptop reserve officers until the regular retirement...
...Germans hang on? Explained General Alexander: 1) for prestige -Italy, a former Ally, is the major territory outside Germany that is still held; 2) for morale-further retreat would affect the home front; 3) for supply-the industries of north Italy are still useful...
...musical public had even heard of her. Then Korjus was injured in an automobile accident, spent nearly a year in a Santa Monica hospital writing a book "on the transmutation of my spiritual life." Recovered, she disappeared into Mexico, for four years let the musical world go hang. As she explained it later: "I fell in love weeth...
...Francisco and Los Angeles speeches, many Republicans feared that Tom Dewey had fallen into the fatal Willkie "Me Too" trap. (In San Francisco, Dewey had done nothing more shocking than to say, in effect, that if the U.S. has discarded Adam Smith's economics it cannot continue to hang, tooth & nail, to Thomas Jefferson's politics. In Los Angeles, he had merely said that if the U.S. is to have Social Security, it should be there for all.) But some GOPsters shook their heads, and Hatchet-man Harold Ickes set up the cry: Dewey is outdealing...