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Soon the defiantly avant-garde Emily Carr of youth was transformed into a dumpy, frumpy, acidulous old maid. She would plod the staid streets of Victoria with a monkey on her shoulder and a mangy sheep dog at her heels, pushing a baby carriage full of groceries, while neighbors sneered, smirked, winced, howled or froze with disdain...
...Sister Dorothy Kilgallen (TIME, Nov. 15), Handyman Bob Considine and Cartoonist Burris Jenkins Jr. (for courtroom sketches). Scripps-Howard followed suit with its own crew, including Inspector Robert Fabian of Scotland Yard, who, repelled by the Hollywood-like atmosphere of the trial, wrote icily: "In the staid atmosphere of the Old Bailey, this would not have been allowed." Even the conservative New York Herald Tribune sent a specialist: Margaret Parton, whose literate, low-keyed reporting, the first such crime reporting she has ever done, was probably the best on the trial. Newsmen, assigned to the story by papers all over...
...Here is a true report which should not be hidden. Never has France's stock fallen so low." With these words elegant, scholarly Pierre Brisson, 58, managing director of Paris' oldest daily, Le Figaro, shook up his staid readers and set off a fusillade of protest in the French press. Just back from his first trip to the U.S. in four years, Brisson reported: "In Washington, in New York, distrust is everywhere." Brisson, whose paper takes a dim view of Premier Mendés-France reported that Americans felt that France, by reneging on EDC, had gone back...
MANHATTAN'S staid Frick Collection last week put on display the elaborately splendid painting opposite. Begun by Jan van Eyck, and finished after his death by his disciple Petrus Christus, it has the grace and precision, the atmosphere of Tightness and relaxation, common to Early Flemish masterpieces. The picture shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Barbara and Elizabeth of Hungary. Kneeling in adoration is the Carthusian prior who commissioned the painting for his church in 1441. Acquired a century ago by Paris' Baron de Rothschild, the picture has now passed to the Frick-for a rumored...
None of these labels fit Mr. Bentley exactly, least of all the first, yet they all have validity. In the role of a leading critic, he can boast of insights which twist far from paths beaten by New insists, for instance, in identifying new York's reliable, if staid reviewers. he schools, in categorizing techniques, and in drawing parallels between the social scene and the theatre. One can accept Bentley's need for categories for they are indispensable to any form of criticism, and one may even except the labels he chooses to use. But it is difficult to escape...