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...good news had come of Free China's greatest victory in six weary years of war (TIME, June 14); and this was the immemorial Festival of the Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon-to Chinese, the "Fifth of the Fifth"; to foreigners, the' colorful day of the dragon-boat races...
...dramatic canvases were shown at Manhattan's Grand Central Galleries. Famine, painted ten years ago, was depicted by an enormous white bird hovering over a ghost town; sabotage was symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered God, whose hooked nose and long white beard projected from a cloud. Passing from fore to hindsight, Mrs. Bush exhibited her brilliant idyllic scenes of the island of Guam, painted in 1942 from memories of a 1921 visit...
Novelist Upton Sinclair, for Dragon's Teeth...
Upton Sinclair was singled out for his "Dragon's Teeth," a novel published by an American and dealing with American life. "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's fantasy now running on Broadway, was given an award for "the American play, performed in New York, which represents in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage." Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York Times, was designated at the year's most distinguished correspondent on the basis of his South Pacific report. Either Forbes' "Paul Revere and the World Be Lived In" earned the prize for the best...
Well camouflaged, lazy-looking spots became busy, alert shacks, anti-aircraft pits, airplanes. On the flanks of planes could be seen the pilots' emblem-a droopy-tailed dragon with the motto: "Our Assam Draggin...