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This week Great Britain seemed to be more afraid of peace than war. London circulated a weird story: to convince the U. S. that Hitler had become a penitent, religious man, Father Odo had been sent to the U. S. by Clipper. Father Odo is Karl Alexander Maria Philipp Joseph Albrecht Gregor, His Royal Highness the Duke of Württemberg, whose father, Duke Albrecht, was a Field Marshal of World War I fame. Father Odo's mission was said to be to sell the U. S. on Hitler's plan for a united Christian Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace Talk | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Said Physicist Philipp Frank of Harvard: "It must be the task of religion, according to the modern conception of science, to do what that science is unable to do, that is, set up certain goals for both private and social human life, and influence the disposition of human beings in favor of these goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Science and Religion | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...average $1,500 for their keep, to colleges which it prefers to be smallish, inland. The lot which Carnegie doled out this year includes: one slightly shopworn illustrator, John Held Jr., to the University of Georgia; one up-&-coming muralist, Philip Evergood, to Kalamazoo College. A crack portraitist, Robert Philipp, goes to the University of Illinois on a $4,000 Rotating Professorship succeeding Dale Nichols (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939). The Foundation turned down Pennsylvania State College when they asked for a grant to keep Henry Varnum Poor around after he had finished a mural commissioned by the college (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists in Residence | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Three of Producer Wanger's artists (George Biddle, Ernest Fiene, Robert Philipp) had painted straight, conventional portraits of costumed cinemactors. One (Fiene) had thrown in a portrait of Producer Wanger himself. Famed U. S. "Primitive" Grant Wood, who sees life steadily and sees it neat, had painted a barbershop septet in a bar so photographically that it might have been mistaken for a movie still. Spanish Frescoist Luis Quintanilla had concentrated on the women in the cast (Carmen Morales and Judith Linden), left the two-fisted action scenes for Thomas Benton, Raphael Soyer, Georges Schreiber and James Chapin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: High-Brow Publicity | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Fontainebleau school is gone. The merriest and best-loved of its teachers, 77-year-old Isidore Philipp (piano), is a penniless refugee in the Pyrenees. Pince-nezed, schoolmarmish Nadia Boulanger, coach of many a young composer, was last seen driving away with her most precious possessions piled high in an automobile. Few other Fontainebleau teachers have been heard from at all. But two pianists, Robert Casadesus and his pretty wife Gaby, are in the U. S. Last week they started up the Fontainebleau tradition at Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fontainebleau in Newport | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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