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...with a scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy and some financial help from his parents, he set out for a look at the artistic life of France. His trip stretched into a four-year stay, during which he studied, worked and learned to carry a sketch pad wherever he went-even when he ventured into Paris' high-kicking night life. Unlike many a French-influenced U.S. painter who works his way toward the abstract, Levi plunged early into abstractions and progressed back toward a sort of poetic realism with surrealist overtones. A slow worker who produces less than a dozen...
...Some 6,000 Allied airplanes raided Germany, but the vast armada scarcely stirred a conversational eddy. Only the Daily Sketch recalled that, a year before, Winston Churchill had promised that "our bombing will increase beyond any power yet imagined...
...such esteem that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1858 ran an artists' excursion train, took Durand and a party of colleagues on a cross-country junket. The six-car train, equipped with piano, sofas, sleeping quarters and a photographic darkroom, stopped wherever an artist felt the urge to sketch. A popular success, Durand eventually became president of the National Academy of Design...
...Author supplies readers of his Carnival with an illuminating biographical sketch, My Fifty Years with James Thurber (he is 49, "but the publishers felt that 'fifty' would sound more effective"). "Not a great deal," says the autobiographer, "is known about his earliest years, beyond the fact that he could walk when he was four." After several years of newspaper work, he turned up on the New Yorker in the late '203-starting out, according to New Yorker custom, as managing editor. He edited so unmanageably and wrote so well that he was soon made writer...
...between there are reminiscent essays, a travel sketch, essays on English heroes and English character, reprints of the author's literate radio broadcasts to English schoolchildren. Professor Rowse says that when he came to collect his writings he was surprised to find the strong and consistent theme that ran through them-"something more than pride in, a deep love for, English things . . . for our tradition itself and the literature in which it is expressed and handed on." It is likely to inspire much the same emotion in President Roosevelt (most of whose ancestors were English, not Dutch...