Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smiling pinkly, the only living ex-President of the U. S. reached Brussels last week on his first visit to Europe in nearly 20 years. Every Belgian paper, from Communist to Rexist, dropped its bickering to honor Herbert Clark Hoover, Belgium's Wartime Relief Administrator, with fulsome editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait...
Winning championships is an old story to Birger Ruud. Olympic jumping champion twice (1932 and 1936), and world champion thrice, he has competed in 200 meets, placed 190 times, won no times, broken 50 records. His older brother, Sigmund, won the U. S. championship while on a visit last year and placed fifth last week. The Brothers Ruud are-next to Sonja Henie-Norway's greatest athletic pride. Born in a little silver-mining town of Kongsberg near Oslo, which has produced more topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first...
...Ecole Normale de Musique's composition department) and in Fontainebleau (where she has long been associated with the American Conservatory), Mile Boulanger, at one time or another, has had nearly half of the better-known younger U. S. composers at her feet. Main purpose of her present Boston visit is not conducting but teaching. The news that she was to lecture for a term at Radcliffe College brought pleas for admission from hordes of Harvardmen...
...exhibition of paintings by a shaggy-haired, beer-loving Englishman who immediately, without fuss or feathers, assumed significance in modern art. He was 37-year-old William Hayter, a onetime teacher of engraving in Paris. His distinction: that of being the first Surrealist painter of the Paris school to visit the fighting zone in Spain. Much has been written by Andre Breton and other Surrealists on their profound affinity with the antiFascists. So far as is known, William Hayter beat them all to Madrid...
...world's great photographers and last week's exhibition was his first in the U. S. It was also a nearly definitive collection of Capa's Spanish photographs. For after more than a year of pictorial reporting, interrupted only by a brief visit to the U. S. last autumn, Robert Capa was last week on his way to China...