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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Smuts lost his . own seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
...small, Rembrandt-like study of a bearded old Jew outshone some of the more ambitious canvases. Band had illuminated the hoary, disconsolate head as if with a Gestapo searchlight (see cut). Journalist Pierre van Paassen has said that with such somber understatements Band has "indicted a civilization." But Band takes a differing view of his work. "Although I paint sadness," he says, "I don't paint 'against' anyone. There can be no hatred in art. I paint the oppressed only because I love him; never do I paint the oppressor...
Chess & Cape. Still slender and erect, Gide has a leathery brown skin, sharp eyes and decisive gestures. His rambling Left-Bank apartment is shared with stout, 82-year-old writer Maria Van Rysselberghe, her daughter and son-in-law, Newspaperman Pierre Herbart. Gide's daughter, Catherine, now in her 20s, lives near Paris with her husband and two children...
...solemn Manhattan ceremony at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal in spite of Critic Lewis Mumford, who resigned from the Institute over it. Mumford didn't want to pass out any medals to so partisanly isolationist a historian. Official Medal-Pinner Van Wyck Brooks took pains to point out in his speech that the members were paying homage to "the qualities in his life and his work about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard took the medal but uttered...
Besides the Calhoun brothers and manager Bob Bennett, the anthropoid half of the polo team involves Emil Van Peborgh--who earned his spurs on Argentine fields--Amory Houghton, Dusty Howland, Stu Bennett, and Tim White. Van Peborgh, captain Calhoun, and Howland comprise the usual starting three. All of the present squad will be back next year, booted and spurred...