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...Shipping Control Committee, along with Brother Frederick. From there the Brothers Gibbs launched out into the field of ship designing, finally set up an office on lower Broadway. Some years later they formed a partnership with Daniel Hargate Cox, well-known yacht designer. Mr. Cox lent luster then. Now 70-year-old Mr. Cox's forte is no longer the firm's mainstay. He is now busy with Navy maintenance work. Business head of the firm is still Frederick...
...years between the Liberal Party's birth and World War I, Liberal Governments under nine Prime Ministers ruled Britain for 52 years. With Ramsay MacDonald's Laborites and the Tories monopolizing political luster since 1922, the Liberals developed party schisms and retired ungratefully to a bedrock representation of 20 Members of Parliament. It seemed evident last week that in retirement the Liberal Party had found time to think: about Britain and what they want for it, and what they want for their Party...
Lover of Life is not to be confused with Irving Stone's Lust For Life (TIME, Oct. 28, 1935), nor is it likely to be. Both are bio-novels about painters. But about living, Life-Lover Pieter Paul Rubens was measurably less hot under the ruff than Life-Luster Vincent van Gogh, and so is the tone of his story. Comfortably pneumatic as a Rubens model (678 pages), it provides an intricate semiprivate history of its period (1577-1640), a smooth survey course in Renaissance art, and a career which refreshingly breaks most of the rules set down about...
...band is a unique stunt, but except as a stunt it doesn't add new luster to Mr. Bechet, who is already a first-rate hot soprano saxophonist...
Young Darlan's school record at the Paris Lycee St. Louis was only average and his teachers there were astonished when he began to shine in his second year at the Ecole Navale (France's Annapolis). A connection has often been suggested between his luster and the fact that his sister had just married Capitaine de Vaisseau Keraudren, then Aide-de-Camp to the President of the Republic. At school Darlan's wild arm-waving while he talked earned him the nickname "The Bass Drummer," upon which he often capitalized by standing on a chair to exhibit...