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...Manhattan at a "Funds for France" dinner which she sponsored to feed children in Free France, best-dressed, frail Mrs. Harrison ("Mona") Williams was baited by a reporter who implied that to feed France was to help Germany. Said she tearfully: "I have nothing to hide. Is it a sin to be a Christian?" Said Guest Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.: "Mona, it's all so silly-everyone knows you are no more of a Nazi than...
...dirigible builder and airplane manufacturer, Shute is now working at the Admiralty, wrote Landfall in his spare time. It is the story of an R. A. F. pilot on the Channel patrol who sinks a submarine, falls in love with a barmaid. The Navy thinks the submarine was British; Mona, her ears open behind the bar, sets out to prove otherwise. Far as possible from a languid Tennessee whittlers' bench are Author Shute and his material, but somehow even in embattled London men go on telling stories...
...public and private collections of greater Germany, are believed ready to dump looted pictures from occupied nations. Billy Rose has heard that agents are on the way with booty from the Louvre. But, added he, "I won't buy loot. I wouldn't pay $50 for the Mona Lisa under those conditions...
...chance. After Napoleon's downfall, France was forced to return much Italian swag-notably the Horses of St. Mark's-but Italy was never satisfied that it had recovered all its rightful treasures. Last week Fascista, the University's official publication, listed demands for more: the Mona Lisa, other Da Vinci works, masterpieces by Titian, which include a portrait of the French King, Francis...
...isolated examples of still-unreturned Napoleonic plunder, such as Fra Angelico's Coronation of the Virgin, the Italian title is clear-cut. But some of the Italian claims are unverifiable or downright shady. It is true that the Mona Lisa once hung in Bonaparte's bedroom at the Tuileries, but that was three centuries after its purchase by Francis I, onetime patron of its painter. Records indicate that the picture remained in France until its theft from the Louvre in 1911 by an Italian. But Fascista was longer on acquisitive patriotism than on logic. Said Fascista...