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...Canterbury's 25th birthday dinner in Manhattan last week went rich and famous men: retired Steelman James A. Farrell and Railroader Henry Havemeyer, trustees of the school; 100-odd old boys, among them Philip Burnham, editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. Too busy to attend was old Canterburian Robert Sweeney of the American Eagle Squadron, training as air fighters in England. In jail in Italy was George Ehret, '29, accused of fooling around with Italian currency (TIME, Nov. 25). Classmates were not surprised, recalled that George once catapulted a butterball to the dining-room ceiling under...
...invalided out after Gallipoli, in 1919 served on a committee to investigate "The Effects of Intoxicating Liquors on Australian Soldiers." For three years (1926-29) he was the Government's Senate whip, last October was made Minister of Interior. None of these things made him a famous Australian. When the Information Ministry sent out a bulletin announcing the Menzies Cabinet in October, Senator Foil's name was given as Henry (instead of Hattil...
Crusty Director Heil, who had already made himself famous by gathering the bang-up art exhibitions of San Francisco's World's Fair, was noted in the U. S. art world for his determination. For a year he negotiated, first with Paris, then with the Vichy Government, guaranteed shipment costs, promised to keep the collection safe until the war was over. Last October he managed to get the pictures from Buenos Aires as far as New York, where they were promptly frozen as part of the assets of France. Stymied, Director Heil started sending letters to Congressmen, even...
Opening-day visitors found all this art pretty impressive. Critics were less polite. Growled the Los Angeles Times's Arthur Millier: "Famous actors and actresses can be very bad artists...
More than 80% of the prisoners in the concentration camps are not Jews but Christians, and the best tribute to the spirit of Germany's Christians comes from a Jew and agnostic (TIME, Sept. 23) - the world's most famous scientist, Albert Einstein. Says...