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...streak pf humility remains. He showed it recently when he and Madame Chiang, with sons Ching-kuo and Wei-kuo, went over to the Christian church which the Gimo had presented to Nanking. No pastor was present. The Gimo himself preached a little sermon, taking his text from I. Chronicles: "As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war . . ." Jehovah had willed the assignment...
Russian Delegate Andrei Gromyko, making his second appearance since his walkout, was particularly gay. The Soviet Purchasing Commission had just bought the $1 million Long Island estate pf deceased capitalist George Dupont Pratt for a reported $120,000 (see INTERNATIONAL) . He himself had received a box of flowers from an admirer who wrote "God bless you and Uncle Joe" and signed himself "Rock-ribbed Republican." The scenery was nice too. Gromyko even accepted a light from a reporter for the Russophobe Chicago Tribune...
...extends from "the Old Squire sentiment for old names, old fields, old ways" to the obstinacy of coal miners who labor in wretched forms of physical drudgery, yet "are more averse to new machinery than the mine owners are. . . . When the love for an old hall by a college pf dons dooms charwomen to carry coal scuttles up and slop jars down three flights of stairs, the conservatism has a flavor not idyllic. Yet kitchen help in my college almost struck last winter over the installation of a plate-washer...
...Benito Mussolini to be shrewd as well as ruthless. Last week he toughened the will of his people to fight, by appeals to their patriotism, and by propaganda which made the most of their fierce resentment of British and U.S. bombings. He also sought to reduce the small number pf Italians who might try to cut his throat by independent deals with the Allies...
Says Georgia O'Keeffe of her flower paintings: "I am attempting to express what I saw in a flower which apparently others failed to see." For years people have been seeing all kinds pf things in O'Keeffe's flowers. Critic Lewis Mumford has seen a celebration of "almost every phase of the erotic experience." Said he: "Socrates learned about love from the priestess Diotima; but if he were alive today, he would probably go to O'Keeffe." Painter Oscar Bluemner has written: ". . . O'Keeffe steps forth as [an] . . . imaginative biologist of all creation . . . extending...