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Said Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon: "The names of wars, like war slogans and war songs, are not made, they are born. Something may happen at a moment's notice which will give us the name. Until then we can't create one artificially...
TIME'S account of the fall of Singapore, especially the paragraphs headed "Whose fault?" certainly makes Hendrik Willem van Loon out to be a prophet...
Acidly Senator Byrd remarked the fact that Chicago's Jack M. Willem had been made coordinator of bowling. Icily he claimed: "Mr. Willem, as national bowling coordinator, I understand, is authorized to undertake a national campaign to recruit 25,000,000 men, women and children for regular attendance at bowling alleys. Mr. Willem has been identified to me as an executive of the Stack-Goble Advertising Agency, which handles the account of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. I am informed the company holds a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of bowling alleys, balls and pins...
Germany. Deacon-like Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler has long been scorned by most musicians because he early made peace with the Nazis. He still conducts the Berlin Philharmonic, which tours occupied nations, has been reported as far afield as Athens. Even more condemned than Furtwangler is Willem Mengelberg, who was with the New York Philharmonic from 1921 to 1929. Red-haired Dutchman Mengelberg has lately conducted all over Germany. Only other internationally known musicians who have been playing in Germany are Pianists Wilhelm Bachaus and Walter Gieseking. Hulking, butler-like Gieseking has roused suspicions that he is pro-Nazi...
Despite continuing headaches, Traffic Victim Fritz Kreisler was able to leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...