Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...included only two pictures by Pieter Breughel the Elder, the dominant Flemish genius of the 16th Century. At time when the guilds were breaking up and Italian Renaissance influence wa; breaking in, Breughel painted mischievous magnificent scenes of everyday Flemish life. The Worcester exhibition left U. S students still obliged to go to Antwerp Brussels and Vienna to see his larger anc greater works...
...Connolly to Chicago and telling the .Consolidated directors what to do, the man whose tough job it is to hold together what is left of the Hearst empire, is a small, dry Manhattan lawyer named Clarence John Shearn. Though he stepped down from the bench 20 years ago, he still likes to be called Judge Shearn. When Hearst was a liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial counsel for the Chase National Bank in a series of stockholders...
...city room legends, hired & fired many thousands of men. He spent fortunes for trained seals, but he never gave a leg man a decent wage if he could help it. Most people hated him and he had to take his name off Metrotone News, but the few who are still close to Hearst love him with Irish sentimentality. Paul Y. Anderson called him "a horse-faced man with a squeaky...
...nearly two years he has just sat there, no longer absolute boss even of his papers' policies. He still owns fabulous Wyntoon and San Simeon (subject to Mr. Chandler's mortgage), still dines celebrities from silver plate in medieval splendor (on his allowance from Judge Shearn); but at 75 the bad boy of U. S. journalism is just a hired editorial writer who has taken a salary...
...into a cakewalk, when the flowers that bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...