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...Artist. Gladys Rockmore Davis, 43, is the ten-year wonder of U.S. art. It took her just that long to paint her way from a fashion illustrator to a top-flight easel painter with a reputation as "one of the very few American women artists who can paint a nude that does not resemble a Bonwit Teller manikin...
...detector won. In Brooklyn last week Mrs. Edna Hancock, who had pitted her word against that of a lie detector in a recent rape case (TIME, Jan. 10), was indicted for perjury. Her alleged rapist, Murray Goldman, was saved from a ten-year prison sentence...
...Scandinavian tongues, as editor of the DAE, was not as illogical as it might seem. Sir William spent 31 years on the great Oxford English Dictionary, was knighted for his stupendous scholarly labor. Before the last volume of the OED was out, he settled in Chicago for a ten-year stay, to grapple with U.S. lingo. His mountainous task was to find out what Americans had done to the English language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries in the OED. These became the basis of the DAE. Sir William...
...Ten-Year Plan. Romains is one of the most prolific of living writers. When he started writing Men of Good Will, he had already turned out many volumes-Death of a Nobody, which won sincere critical praise, popular plays on the level of Broadway thrillers, poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic, but too keenly perceptive to be pornographic, expositions of his theory of unanimism, experiments in telepathy, in Extra-Retinal Vision. He was also a lecturer in philosophy, and a one-man conspiracy with hush-hush dealings with people like King Leopold of Belgium, General Gamelin, Premier Daladier, Otto Abetz, then...
Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...