Word: loon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hendrik Van Loon, among others, tries to indict Colonel Lindbergh's ability as a historian...
...measure of a good historian is his ability to project himself into the future. The accuracy of the Lindbergh predictions is a matter of record. Let Van Loon produce another whose predictions have run as true...
Among the other prominent persons who regularly broadcast over the station are Raymond Gram Swing, Fulton Lewis, Jr., and Hendrik Wilhelm Van Loon...
...World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, which has been supported by Rockefeller, Sloan and Carnegie cash and listeners' contributions since 1935, on the basis of its original purpose to promote international amity. Among those who have needled the Fuhrer over its facilities have been Dorothy Thompson, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Norway's Carl J. Hambro. But none has packed the wallop of cultured, greying, 46-year-old Dr. Svetislav-Sveta Petrovitch, author of last fortnight's appeals to the Yugoslavs...
...rusty-haired, Austrian-born portrait painter named Clara Klinghoffer. To give Artist Klinghoffer a good sendoff, 460 Park Avenue spruced up one of its best rooms, put on a show of 28 paintings and drawings, including portraits of such notables as Tenor Sergei Radamsky, tunbellied Author Hendrik Willem van Loon. For a portraitist with such a good address, Painter Klinghoffer is medium-priced, will do a muscled, Michelangelesque drawing for $60, a Rembrandtesque oil for $650. An expert at accurate anatomy and spitting imagery, Artist Klinghoffer has been working with charcoal, pen and pencil ever since she can remember. Says...