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Last week Chief Justice Stone produced a list of the paintings, which was sure to make museum directors come hurrying round to beg for just a peek. Among the 202 masterpieces were five Botticellis, 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, six Van Eycks...
...Duke of Windsor, back in England for the first time since 1940, got an oldtime Glamor Boy's welcome as crowds of women (mostly middleaged) fought for a peek into his auto. The Duke went straight to his mother, Queen Mary, whom he had not seen for nine years; that night he dined with her, his brother the King and his sister the Princess Royal. Next day he visited the King for a 2½-hour heart-to-heart. Getting back in stride, he unlimbered his golf clubs, and made a tour of East End bombed areas...
...Away), a veteran of Orson Welles's Mercury Theater and radio's MARCH OF TIME, chic, redhaired, fortyish Miss Moorehead has perfect timing, can control her voice as expertly as a radio engineer can control sound. Before going on the air with Sorry, she never takes a peek at the script, feels it would unnerve her. She acts the part without an audience; during the half hour (which is almost a monologue) wears herself to a frazzle...
...Brill; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (the apostle to the publishers, who psychoanalyzed Marshall Field III and Ralph McAllister Ingersoll); Dr. Karl A. Menninger (head of Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic); Dr. Franz Alexander (high priest of Chicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis). Laymen who would like to take a peek inside the temple will have a hard time; the services are conducted in a formidable lingo, which puts new meanings to such familiar words as sublimation, transference and catharsis, and uses such arcane runes as abalienation and stereotypy. Sample liturgical phrase: "narcissistic identification as a preliminary stage to object cathexis...
...reconversion plan for U.S. industry after V-E day was formally unwrapped last week. Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes had given businessmen a good peek at it when he turned over his job to Fred Vinson fortnight ago, but he left it up to WPBoss Julius A. Krug to take off all the wraps. In so doing, WPBoss Krug optimistically predicted that a year after Germany quits, the U.S. will be turning out as many refrigerators, stoves and possibly autos - and all other consumers' goods...