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...Master Braque's Interior, one of the hits of the Autumn Salon, was a solemn rectangle of silence in the general, uproar of the show. Painted almost entirely in black and grey, with a few dabs of orange, its solid, weighty strength made some of the gayer pictures look thin and forced. Braque has been living in unapproachable solitude for the past few years...
Eleanor Roosevelt had an ancient Egyptian ring coming to her from the estate of British Egyptologist Major R. G. Gayer-Anderson, who died last month after willing five such rings to five famed men: the late President, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf, Egypt's King Farouk...
...G.I.s, a wintry, curfewed Paris seemed much gayer last week: up near the Arc de Triomphe a Stage Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derri...
...gala. The city was drab and dirty after the Jap occupation. The incoming soldiers were dust-caked and sweat-streaked. But next morning, as the sun mounted, the miracle of freedom restored called forth a rush of popular emotion that was louder than the music of bands, gayer than whipping banners...
...Fairy Tales (as they became known in translation) were not primarily literary creations. The by-product of philological research, their collection began with the chance discovery by Jacob Grimm of a selection from the Minnesingers in the library of his law professor. Scholarly Jacob and his gentler, gayer brother Wilhelm, who had shared the same bed as children, the same room as students, from that moment dedicated their lives to tracking down, deciphering and recording their country's folklore...