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Divorced. Grant Wood, 47, earthy U. S. artist whose neat, ironic brush has stirred up many a dust storm (American Gothic, Daughters of Revolution, TIME, Sept. 5, 1932); from Sarah Sherman Wood, 55; in Iowa City, Iowa. Grounds: inhuman treatment...
...Pittsburgh short, suave, russet-haired Gerald L. (for Leslie) Brockhurst served on the jury for the 1939 Carnegie Inter national Exhibition. And in Manhattan two exhibitions of his work were opened which showed him equally proficient with brush, crayon, etcher's needle. At the Knoedler Galleries was a loan exhibition of his portraits and drawings. The Arthur Harlow Galleries showed the first complete exhibition of his etchings. With his projected English commissions canceled or postponed "for the duration," Artist Brockhurst, whose deafness kept him out of World War I, planned to paint portraits...
...same the next, that German men do not like to see their wives in a new dress or hat every few months, that women should learn "to abandon a dress when it is used up and not when it becomes unfashionable." Prime mover in this audacious campaign is brush-haired, portly Dr. Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), Labor Front Leader whose tirades against alcohol, nicotine and debauchery have long excited the mirth of knowing Nazis who recall his bibulous "Strength Through Joy" trip accompanied by bevies of blooming beauties. Opening a "House for the Care of Beauty" in Berlin recently...
...Besides winning the Big Ten championship in the shot put, broad jump and discus three years in a row, he has cleared the high jump at 6 ft. 5 ¾ in., has run 100 yd. in 10.1 sec., 440 yd. in 55 sec. If he can brush up on the pole vault, javelin, high hurdles and the 1,500-meter run, he may be America's best bet for the 1940 Decathlon championship...
...Royal Society of Geographers, a four-minute speech that is not only one of the longest but perhaps the most eloquent in cinema history, sounds as if it might be worth a trophy case of Academy Oscars. Excellent shots: Stanley foiling a host of murderous native warriors with a brush fire; Dr. Livingstone gaily leading his jungle Sunday school in a rendition of Onward, Christian Soldiers...