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...things to paint, Belgian Paul Delvaux liked nothing better than painting naked, big-breasted women on windy beaches, crowded streets and moonlit terraces, among Greek ruins and in Empire ballrooms. Sometimes he showed them stooping to pluck a rose from the floor or from under a passing trolley...
Moonlight & Santayana. Soekarno gave up architecture. But though politics has been his occupation, he has not lost his interest in art. His Batavia house contains one of the finest collections of Indonesian paintings, especially moonlit mountain and jungle scenes. His favorite artist is the younger Abdullah, who painted a hauntingly lovely portrait of Soekarno's present wife (he married her because his first wife bore him no children; by the second he has a young son). When Soekarno was paid 800 guilders a month by the Japs, he used to give Artist Abdullah...
...room for editorials, closeups, "text pieces" by men of letters (Winston Churchill, John Dos Passos, Reinhold Niebuhr, et al.). Still popularly regarded as a "picture magazine," LIFE now averages up to 20,000 words of text per issue-the wordage of a novelette. It took science out of the moonlit fantasies of the Sunday supplement, made it understandable to millions yet acceptable to scientists, in maps, diagrams, pictures of three-dimensional models and charts (with stories on food, color, electronics, plutonium...
...Poet Alfred Noyes was writing an adaptation of his moonlit poem, The Highwayman, for production by Hollywood...
...moonlit Waikiki beach last week, the flying fishes had tough competition. Inside Waikiki natatorium, the crack team of the Hawaii Swim Club took on the visiting national A.A.U. champions from Ohio State. In the process, the Hawaiians broke one Olympic and three U.S. records-all to the greater glory of a sad, serious-minded U.S.-born Japanese whose ambition is to get his boys on a U.S. Olympic swimming team, and to be their coach...