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Last week, while the old country grappled with Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Grand Rapids' happier Dutch went to their prim, pillared Art Gallery to see the biggest collection of Dutch art Grand Rapids had ever seen. With eleven top-flight portraits by Rembrandt and Frans Hals as its central attraction, the exhibition (valued at some $2,000,000) covered 500 years of finely-turned painting, from the squirming, mystical fantasies of 15th-Century Hieronymus Bosch to the geometric designs of 20th-century Piet Mondrian. What made Grand Rapids Dutch almost as proud: the name of practically every artist...
...buskin for The Man Who Came to Dinner? (TIME, Feb. 19.) Here in Chicago Clifton Webb pulled on the sock, a happier choice. Perhaps the late Town Crier should have thrice refused the part...
World War II has increased the world's previous refugee problems by many times. Out of Germany, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia keep streaming thousands of helpless, penniless Jews and Gentiles seeking safer, happier homes. Refugee committees have been swamped...
...whole, we should be happier not to find him in such an unfriendly world, mingling blood-feuds with his seductions and urbanity with his conforming to the mores of a primitive society. For the result fails of inclusion in any of the three categories of the old saw. What is more important, Wiglerus' character keeps "Hamlet Had an Uncle" from being a rather good transcription of a saga, and the unfriendly world keeps Wiglerus from making his story a typical Cabell novel...
...young people from all economic classes--Jim and Aubrey differ, at least at first blush, about the type of scholarship aid which should be provided for the able but needy. Youth Administrator Williams asserts that the student who works to earn some of the costs of his education is happier, learns better work habits, and feels himself more a member of the community, than the boy who is simply given the money he needs, without any productive service being required of him. Replying that a student can find better things to do with his time than stack books away, particularly...