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...slightly misleading article on Keats's sketch of Haydon now exhibited in the London National Portrait Gallery. The reproduction fails to make clear that the "vile caricature of B. R. Haydon by John Keats" (as Haydon, not Keats, wrote beneath it) is the faintly drawn profile in the background, reproduced herewith [see cut] with the other sketches by Haydon suppressed. . . . This is indeed a "vile caricature...
...Gromyko, "not to take [Zionist aspirations] into account." Then he proposed partition of Palestine (which Arabs have unanimously opposed) as one possible solution of the Palestine problem. Russia, in effect, jumped up on the fence with Britain and the U.S. On Palestine, where big-power rivalry (always in the background) had not yet been clearly defined, the U.N. at last was able to take almost unanimous action. The General Assembly voted, 46 to 7, for the plan backed by the U.S.: a special commission of eleven small "neutral" states* with the "widest powers" to investigate every phase of the Palestine...
...earliest (1929) sound movies, Director Edmund Goulding hit a snag: no matter how Gloria Swanson said the line ("Take him back, I don't want him"), it sounded corny. Instead of changing the line, he took the Hollywood way out: he diverted the audience's attention with background music. Goulding thought up a tune himself, whistled it to an arranger. His tune, to which Elsie Janis later wrote lyrics, became Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere...
Last week Goulding's background music had leaped to the front of the Hit Parade. Mam'selle jumped from 25th to first place on sheet music best-seller lists in ten weeks. Said Whistler Goulding proudly: "When you whistle you're naked. You can't play covering chords to conceal the fact that you haven't got a good tune...
...technical tools in economic analysis. Nor can the social scientist neglect the importance of a sound grasp of the study's principles and problems. But the stubborn fact persists that government and history concentrators criticize Economics A as more a menace than a means toward providing an admittedly desirable background. The graph-conscious approach, while clear to the average science major, sears a little above the head of the future historian or politician...