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...artistic taste from the sound advice of the late William Glackens (TIME, Dec. 26), from persistent study and from the inquisitive philosophy of his friend John Dewey (see p. 56). White-headed, black-browed Dr. Barnes got his temper, according to his enemies, from the devil himself. Those who have offended him the full-blooded doctor has often publicly kicked in the teeth, with obstreperous rhetoric. In 1937 it was the Pennsylvania Museum, for buying what the doctor considered a fifth-rate Cezanne (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Now revealed in more dignified terms (thanks, possibly, to Collaborator de Mazia...
...likes of the Sinn Fein gathering in the hills, these are times when an Irishman in England could do with a word or two first-hand from the old country. But the voice of Erin, Radio-Eireann, from its 100-kilowatt transmitter in Athlone, is having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale de Radiodiffusion, which assigns European broadcasting frequencies, and broadcasts loudly...
Finding an impurity in their copper that they could not get rid of, exasperated German copper miners of the early 18th Century called it kupjernickel (copper devil). Canadian Copper Co. felt the same way about nickel until 1902 when it combined with two U. S. companies that owned a nickel-refining process. The combine eventually became The International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., which produces 85% of the world's nickel and made $24,000,000 in 1938's first nine months...
...Manhattan 49,343 children were polled on the question of who are the most hated and most loved beings in the world. Most hated: 1) Hitler, 2) Mussolini, 3) The Devil. Most loved: 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Harvard, the Vagabond reflected belligerently, as he gambolled down the steps of Widener, had no soul. Vag was in one of those devil-may-care moods which always scize him, to the detriment of his marks and the anguish of his tutor, just before examinations...