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...Most notorious artistic collaboration was Vichy Minister of Education Abel Bonnard's gift to Hermann Göring of the Van Eycks' famed Ghent altarpiece, Adoration of the Lamb...
...ideas on eating are 1) never to satisfy his hunger completely at any one meal; 2) never to eat sugar (because he believes sugar crystals get in people's blood streams and cause infections). He takes a healthy, if restrained, interest in such substantial items as roast beef, lamb and pork chops, baked potatoes, butter, cream. His present enthusiasm for wheat is more industrial than dietary, like his onetime predictions that roads would some day be paved with coffee beans, and automobiles be made, in part at least, from cantaloupes...
...your report (TIME, July 31) of an article I wrote recently for Christianity and Crisis you have me saying that the word lamb in Japanese is an "epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." What I actually said is that one of the Japanese words for sheep is such an epithet...
...later years, correspondents were often surprised to find that Woollcott had never outgrown his love for renaming both his friends and himself. "Lamb of God," he would begin a letter to Noel Coward. Poet Archibald Macleish he addressed as "Ambrose-Son-of-Heaven." Sometimes he signed himself "Pumblechook...
...Letters reflect the brimming Woollcott emotions. "I just cried quietly," he wrote to Noel Coward after seeing the Lamb of God's movie, In Which We Serve. "Courage is the only thing that makes me cry." After previewing Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he burst into "a great, astonishing sob" and fell down the projection-room stairs. "One of the characters in Of Mice and Men," he wrote to Harpo Marx, "is an amiable and gigantic idiot. . . . I tried to get [Heywood] Broun to take this part and he was very hurt." "Just a big dreamer," said Harpo of Woollcott, "with...