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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from Spain's civil war, the most lively political project in Europe is the Fascist "axis" swiftly being forged by Dictators Mussolini and Hitler. The latter's beefy No. 2 man. Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, has been down to Italy twice in four months to discuss it. Last month Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg went down to Venice from Vienna to find out just where Austria stood in the new picture (TIME, May 3). Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, has been to Berlin for a courtesy call. Last week...
...best picture in the show had been Ballerina by Russian-born Feodor Zakharov, graduate of Imperial Moscow's Ecole des Beaux Arts, now a socialite U. S. portraitist. Slickly painted, showing a very refined young lady posed theatrically on tiptoe in the theatre wing, it won more than twice as many votes as its nearest competitor, Alice Through the Black Bottle, by Charles S. Chapman, another canvas missed by most professional critics. Impressed, the Toledo Art Museum invited Mr. Zakharov's Ballerina to its annual summer show of U. S. paintings...
...when he reached the Naval reservation, Captain Pruss took no chances, turned off to sea. At dusk, while a drizzle fell from a sombre sky and a fitful breeze jerked the windsock, the Hindenburg once more poked her nose over Lakehurst. began maneuvering to land. It circled twice, then dropped to 500 ft., occasionally spewing water ballast. At 7:20 p.m. precisely, two lines fell from the bow. A trained squad of Navy men grabbed one, a squad of civilians the other. Gently the two groups began coaxing the big bag to the mooring mast. The breeze teasing the tail...
...which the purpose was not so much to turn War Admiral into the best race horse in the U. S. as to turn him into a horse healthy and hale enough to race at all. As a two-year-old, War Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size. A specially knitted pommel cloth was by no means the only coddling that War Admiral...
...Square Garden, they fought for the championship once more. This time, the sparring partner was a 3-to-1 favorite over his onetime employer. Experts felt that, after twelve years of fighting in which he had held the featherweight championship once, the junior welterweight championship once, the lightweight championship twice, Canzoneri, at 29, was past his prime...