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...weeks its stocky little 69-year-old Premier-Dictator had been fighting for life. A tonsillectomy on Jan. 18 was followed by blood poisoning and finally uremia. When three blood transfusions failed to revive him, a destroyer was dispatched to the Island of Tinos for the miracle-working Holy Icon of the Virgin which 25 years before had been brought to the bedside of King Constantine...
Grant Wood is an earthy, peaceable Iowan who manages to stir up many an artistic rumpus. His American Gothic (1930), portrait of a bleak, bald Iowa farmer and his tight-lipped daughter, at once became chief icon of the past decade's resurgent move to "paint American." His Daughters of Revolution (1932), three prim, grim, self-important matrons, scandalized the D. A. R. Lately Artist Wood has spent more time teaching and making lithographs than he has at his easel...
...Russia, just as Hitler's turgid but more interesting Mem Kampf outsells all secular volumes in Germany. He goes in for Nazi-like plebiscites. Hitler won his 1938 election by 99.08% of the voters; Stalin polls 115% in his own Moscow bailiwick. Stalin's photograph became the icon of the new State, whose religion is Communism...
...Yard, star player and current icon man of team football, has been confined to the sidelines this week as his team speeds preparations for the impending clash with Harvard. Yard's knee was bumped in the first half of the Yale game, and the injury was aggravated in the third quarter...
...farm boys from up-country who resented doing militia service for "this damned Fascism.'' Everywhere they went the visage of Il Duce made jowls at them from stencils on walls, effigies in street parades. In the Church of San Marco in Florence Peter Blume noted an older icon-a cheap statue of Christ crowned with thorns and bedecked with gift trinkets...