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...Manhat tan to receive his $2,500 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's Portrait of America painting contest, first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight...
...colors more radiant in autumn...
...Thames, there was sculling as usual. At the Royal Horticultural Society's flower show in Westminster, a new iris called "Radiant" aroused much interest in its light apricot and crimson-bronze shadings. London's hordes of strangers in uniform thinned out. Londoners felt that they were at last getting back their own town. It was even possible to get a restaurant table without advance booking...
Most of the guests ate buffet style. But in a small back room the Molotovs sat with Harriman and his daughter Kathy, radiant in a long Alice blue gown; Clark Kerr and Alexander Korneichuk and his wife, Wanda Wasilewska, in a black silk skirt topped by a smart white lame jacket. When asked about Polish relations, Korneichuk, the new Foreign Commissar for the Ukraine, spoke charmingly about plans for rebuilding Kiev...
...life; its emotional overtones are out of all proportion to its literal story. Last week's production had its merits: a fluent translation, good pace, no mistaken striving after Russian "soulfulness." But the indispensable merit of tone it did not have. It failed to make little scenes radiant or heartbreaking; it played for laughs; it turned minor roles into blatant character parts. Chekhov-lovers had seen a more poignant Cherry Orchard years ago, when Eva LeGallienne staged it and warm, volatile, Slavic Alia Nazimova played the central role...