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Last week, on Manhattan's 57th Street, four of the leading abstractionists broke out with simultaneous exhibitions. Argentine-born Frenchman Fernand Leger started out as a Cubist with Braque and Picasso in 1910. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky and U. S.-born, German-bred Lyonel Feininger were long masterminds of...
Rationing in both occupied and unoccupied France was already tightened to the limit. With his daily food card a Frenchman could buy each day only half a loaf of bread, a chunk of meat the size of a half dollar, a few crumbs of cheese, enough potatoes for five slices...
Business, it was said, was quite up to the level of other years, and had not suffered because of the war. Tradespeople looked for a last minute spurt today. The telegraph office particularly, recalling that last year it had delivered an ice cream soda with four straws, a dog in...
Life in Iceland the soldiers reported, was not cordial. When a British expeditionary force took over Iceland at the time of the Nazi invasion of Norway, their reception by the natives was anything but warm. The Icelanders so resented the British that soldiers had to go out in parties of...
As a result of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, in which Sherman lost 2,500 men, a Union Army surgeon who lost a leg there named his next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball...