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...artists who make Manhattan the biggest U. S. art centre, those who can afford it, depart in summer to rural resorts from Maine to Virginia. Among their most favored summer art colonies are such New England towns as Silvermine, Lyme, Newport, Provincetown, Rockport. Typical is the little town of Mystic, Conn, (east of New London) which opened its 15th annual exhibition last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Business in Mystic | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Actually Henry Agard Wallace is not so much a dirt farmer as a cloud mystic. He is also one of the few mystics who turn their oddities to practical account. He once subsisted for five days on cottonseed meal, soybean oil and cauliflower-not in the interest of dietary flagellation, but in a quest for cheap foods. He has passed many a night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Stranger | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...last week were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...beings, he is merely a cultivated, steel-hard French Colonial businessman who seems to be unable to write badly. When he describes a primeval, half-witted stowaway he begins to warm up. When he writes of beasts and birds and reptiles, he is a blend of scientist, sensualist and mystic, but above all he is an exact and subtle artist, at ease in a world entirely his own. Demaison plans a series of volumes - for which his over-all title is La Comedie Animale - to do for the animal world what Balzac tried to do for the human. He stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Balzac for the Beasts? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...Cleveland's Common Pleas Court last week two aging tycoons, once inseparable friends, faced each other in bitter litigation. Plaintiff was tiny (5 ft. 3) Frank A. Seiberling, board chairman of Seiberling Rubber Co.. keen and dapper despite his 80 years. On the other side was mystic, eccentric, 275-lb. Edgar B. Davis, 66, oil & rubber man, who has made and spent four fortunes, given away some $6,000,000 to charity and friends because he believed his money "came from the good God himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Rubber Friendship | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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