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Drawn originally as illustrations for Flaubert's Temptation of St. Anthony, these shadowy, brooding fantasies in black & white had long lain unpublished in the collection of the famed French dealer Ambroise Vollard, had found their way to the U.S. following Vollard's death in an automobile accident (TIME, July 31, 1939). This was their first public showing...
...Scharnhorst was waiting for a new propeller, British Intelligence reported. The battleship and her sister, the Gneisenau, had lain in Brest for over three months, and frequently R.A.F. reconnaissance took her picture, to make sure she was still waiting...
...weeks two drafts of an executive order which would end the OPACS-OPM wrangle by clarifying their jurisdiction have lain on President Roosevelt's desk. One draft gives OPACS full control over civilian supply. The other gives control to OPM, confines OPACS to the big job of watching prices. Unsigned, they have remained one of the many bottlenecks on the President's desk. Like many another of these bottlenecks, the OPM-OPACS jurisdictional feud would vanish if there were a single boss of defense...
China's Army lies, and has lain for nearly two and a half years, on a tortured 2,000-mile chain of fronts from the Yellow River to the upper end of the Burma Road. The history of that chain of fronts is unique and anachronistic in World War II-there for 30 weary months has been positional warfare. China's foremost philosopher-apologist, Lin Yutang, wrote last week: "If Japan was able to report gains almost every month, why is it that in the last two and a half years Japan has made a total advance...
...known, lesser-played works. Having been fed for the past decade on a staple diet of symphonic roast beef-the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, Wagner excerpts, Von Weber overtures-it is now broadening out, rather inquisitively poking its nose into a lot of stuff that for many years has lain around in cold storage. A good deal of this stuff is plain junk, and will go right back into cold storage where it came from. But there is bound to be some interesting and excellent music dug up, music appealing to the tastes of this generation, which may find...