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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they would have to decide whether Colonel Lister's alleged act was political or criminal. They were also reported to be pondering whether to exchange Colonel Lister for a French Communist Deputy who had been imprisoned at Alicante. If France either extradites or exchanges Colonel Lister, it was taken for granted that the Loyalist hero's next last-ditch stand would be before a firing squad...
Manhattanites who wished to supplement Knoedler's nudes with something contemporary and three-dimensional could see distinction in both respects at the Buchholz Gallery. The exhibition was of bronzes by Charles Despiau, 65, a quiet, interminable workman who has gradually taken rank as one of the two or three finest French sculptors. His Assia (see cut), a 35-inch bronze done in 1938, was the chief work shown. Not ten classic "standing nudes" so esthetically satisfactory have been fashioned since the time of Rodin...
...husky Cal Sivright, who helped Oliver beat Depression by developing the first streamlined tractor. Well liked-except for a habit of asking to see employes' work sheets-he drives points home by banging on the arm of his chair. So characteristic is the gesture that the firm has taken pictures of it for posterity...
...over direction to young, good-natured George Stevens. Last week another shake-up left The Saturday Review with the same editors but new owners. Purchaser was tall, hard-working Joseph Hilton Smyth, onetime pulp editor, conductor of a mimeographed sheet analyzing foreign affairs, who in the last year has taken over Current History and two venerable, distinguished magazines: Living Age (founded in 1844), North American Review (1815). Associated with him is Publisher Harrison Smith. Owners Smyth & Smith announced there would be no change in The Saturday Review's policy, with George Stevens remaining as editor, Founders Canby, Morley & Benet...
...condition of the President's arm, unfortunately enough, cannot be taken as assurance that all the other flingers of the nation's pastimes are as well off. For this season in the sport might well be termed the year of the sore-arms, or at least, the year of the question-mark arms. Whether due to the widely discussed influence of the "rabbit" quality in American horsehide, or to the more mundane belief that managers have overworked their pitchers, the fact remains that an inordinate percentage of the country's pitching greats have grievous afflictions in their flippers. Carl Hubbell...