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Died. Pierre van Paassen, 72, Dutch-born foreign correspondent, author and minister; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a correspondent for the New York Evening World and Toronto Star from 1924 to 1935, Van Paassen attacked fascism with such gusto that he was thrown out of Germany and Italy; as an author, he wrote a dozen instant histories and produced in 1939 an autobiographical bestseller in Days of Our Years. After World War II, he went to the pulpit and devoted nearly all his time to battling religious and political intolerance as a Unitarian minister...
...daughter in 1915) became vice president in charge of the editorial departments, fully earned his job with his driving energy, his legendary zeal for pumping money and manpower into a good story, his ruthless discipline of staffers who failed to meet his exacting standards. Ernest Hemingway, Pierre van Paassen and many other famed authors worked as young reporters on his ever-changing staff in the years when Hindmarsh was turning the struggling Star and Star Weekly into Canada's most valuable single newspaper property (circulation: 408,545), with Toronto real-estate alone worth...
...small, Rembrandt-like study of a bearded old Jew outshone some of the more ambitious canvases. Band had illuminated the hoary, disconsolate head as if with a Gestapo searchlight (see cut). Journalist Pierre van Paassen has said that with such somber understatements Band has "indicted a civilization." But Band takes a differing view of his work. "Although I paint sadness," he says, "I don't paint 'against' anyone. There can be no hatred in art. I paint the oppressed only because I love him; never do I paint the oppressor...
...Fulton J. Sheen described the devil to his radio audience (TIME, Feb. 3), Unitarians were quick to note that Father Sheen's Satan sounded like nothing so much as a good Unitarian. Last week the Unitarians came out swinging. Hopping mad was jowlish, Netherlands-born Author Pierre van Paassen (Days of Our Years), a Unitarian minister (with no parish) since January...
Unitarian van Paassen chose to speak his piece* in one of Catholicism's U.S. strongholds-Boston (which is also the citadel of Unitarianism). The occasion: one of six consecutive evening meetings addressed by such outstanding religious liberals as Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Hungary's Bishop Alexander Szent-Ivanyi. At this Unitarian equivalent of a "preaching mission," tall, 52-year-old Liberal van Paassen gave his staid Bostonian audience no opportunity to doze. If liberalism is indeed the devil, the devil is what he gave them. For a full hour and a quarter he sawed...