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...Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's more steadfast opponents, Conservative Winston Churchill has long been the cat that walked by himself when he was not clawing the Government for its haste to appease and its tardiness to arm. Like the sly puss in Kipling's Just So Stories, he has had to sit beyond the cozy Government hearth, destined never to warm a Cabinet corner unless somebody spoke him a kind word. Presumably because Winston Churchill is not only the Conservative Party's best brain but its most unpredictable personality, safe & sane Conservatives withheld their kind words until...
...artist who wrote this "to an imaginary friend" in 1936 might have been writing to his solitary self, for enthusiasm has never approached the leprous about Marsden Hartley. A steadfast New England eccentric, whose writings and paintings made sense first to Alfred Stieglitz in 1909, Artist Hartley sits in Maine apainting in the summer and in a Manhattan room ascribbling in the winter, with no public attention what ever. Last week at 61, weathered, heavyset, bright-eyed Marsden Hartley had his 25th one-man show at the Hudson D. Walk er Gallery and made something...
...Garner's view of Frank Murphy's handling of 193 fs motor strikes is that the President of the U. S., not the Governor of Michigan, was at fault-in not early and firmly condemning sit-downs. Frank Murphy's steadfast point is that the use of force would certainly have caused heavy bloodshed. He was there, he knew the ugly temper of the men, and Captain Frank Murphy, who saw two years of the War with the infantry and is by nature gentle as a girl, would not shed blood...
Everywhere I Roam (by Arnold Sundgaard & Marc Connelly; produced by Marc Connelly & Bela Blau) is a hymn to the soil. It begins 100 years ago in a sort of prairie Garden of Eden. The toiling farmer drips with honest sweat, his steadfast wife brings him cool water from the spring, and Johnny Appleseed moseys by, planting apple trees...
...Ireland without St. Patrick is unthinkable," declares Gogarty. "Every person in our island shares something of the personality of that steadfast and enduring man. . . ." But this is only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies...