Word: stefan
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...month-old agreement between the Roman Catholic bishops of Poland and the Communist Polish government broke down last week. In a recent letter to President Boleslaw Bierut, just made public, Primate Archbishop Stefan Wyszynski and Adam Cardinal Sapieha set forth a long list of grievances accumulated since the peace pact was signed...
...Morn, a fact which embarrasses him nowadays. But few experts could criticize the taste, or the diversity, of a collection which included prime examples of Hals, Gainsborough, Degas and Manet. His crystalline views of Venice by Francesco Guardi were matched against a soft, misty one by Corot. He contrasted Stefan Lochner's strict, gothic Presentation in the Temple with a tasty chunk of cheesecake by Francois Boucher, entitled Cupid and the Graces. Clearly, Collector Gulbenkian's appetite was wide and deep as his wallet...
...seriously ("Ich bin Künstler"-I am an artist), but he let the Nazis make him head of their Reichsmusikkammer (State Chamber of Music) in 1933. He resigned when the Nazis irritated him by criticizing his "non-Aryan" librettists, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (who had died in 1929) and Stefan Zweig. Last year, Strauss was finally cleared by a denazification court...
...read with interest the article concerning Eugene Stefan, the D.P., and how union men went on strike to give his job to another [TIME, Aug. 15]. Omaha, indeed, must be quite a city. No doubt the 300 strikers and Labor Leader Preble must feel rather proud of themselves for having secured the job for a "real American" instead of a foreigner...
...note that Labor Leader Preble . . . was not impressed by "the song & dance about [Stefan's] mother and sister being persecuted and murdered...