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Writers present numbered 154-prim old maids, competent country women, rednecked dirt farmers, college students, lawyers, businessmen, one boy, a cross section of the Tennessean's State-wide circulation...
Last week, while the old country grappled with Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Grand Rapids' happier Dutch went to their prim, pillared Art Gallery to see the biggest collection of Dutch art Grand Rapids had ever seen. With eleven top-flight portraits by Rembrandt and Frans Hals as its central attraction, the exhibition (valued at some $2,000,000) covered 500 years of finely-turned painting, from the squirming, mystical fantasies of 15th-Century Hieronymus Bosch to the geometric designs of 20th-century Piet Mondrian. What made Grand Rapids Dutch almost as proud: the name of practically every artist...
Within one hour of this announcement, Franklin Roosevelt instructed lanky, prim William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, to call on Premier Mussolini. Afterwards Ambassador Phillips saw Foreign Minister Ciano twice. And in Washington the Italian Ambassador. Prince Ascanio Colonna, visited Under Secretary of State Welles and both stalked up the street, flecked with the shadows of spring foliage, to call on the President...
...late great Best-Seller General Lew Wallace (Ben Hur). Crawfords ville's biggest office building-five stories-is owned by Ben Hur Life Association. The town's prettiest buildings are on the campus of Wabash College. Two or three times a year, one of these buildings, a prim chapel seating 1,100 people, becomes Crawfordsville's concert hall. There last fortnight, Crawfordsville culture glowed at its brightest. In the chapel 650 townsfolk heard the season's second and final concert of the Crawfordsville Symphony Orchestra. Last week the orchestra's managers checked over their books...
...slow decline of the Pyncheon tribe. Hawthorne addicts will not be too much upset since with a little more taste in casting and staging, this might have been a first-rate film. George Sanders is greedy Brother Jaffrey Pyncheon. Vincent Price is his long-suffering brother. Clifford. As prim, loyal, repressed Cousin Hepzibah, Margaret Lindsay does a Bette Davis, and does it pretty well...