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...clarify "the eternal enigma of the extraordinary man." The visionary gift of the creative artist originates in his acceptance (albeit unconsciously) of this force for which he expends his energies to the limit of his nature. This drive is common to an artist's creativity and work and a stateman's wickedness alike, to both Beethoven and Napoleon; it features an enormous confidence and a wisdom far beyond common...
McNiff, a tall, graying man, is reluctant to talk of the position he occupies among professional librarians. A former president of the Massachusetts Library Association and a member of the Governor's Administrative Library Commission, McNiff is slipping early into the role of elder stateman among public and college librarians. As one member of his staff puts it, "There is a continual parade of people in here seeking his advice...
...Delegate Morrison, who last week went to bed with indigestion, had never heard of Czecholslovakia's Stateman Benes (TIME, June 26). —Ed...
...Present secretary is Mrs. Frederick B. Butler, wife of one of the Assistant Directors of Public Buildings & Public Parks in Washington. *No kin to Stateman Ariste Briand
Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann did not journey to Rome to sign the treaty, lest an impression be created in France that it is a really important rapprochement. Instead Dr. Stresemann, than whom no stateman in Europe is more astute, remained at Berlin and encouraged his party news organs to pronounce the treaty "purely an arbitration pact, and exactly like those already concluded between Germany and Holland, Switzerland, Norway...