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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro) III, King of Italy and Sardinia (1900-46) and Albania (1939-43); Emperor of Ethiopia (May 1939 November 1943); also King of Cyprus, of Jerusalem, of Armenia-ancient honors meaningless these many centuries...
...Modern Burdens. Particularly, the Met does not wish to burden itself with European moderns, and is willing to leave the wisdom of its decision to history. According to Director Taylor, "a shallow, meaningless eclecticism has been . . . to a large extent the fashion of the past three generations." Traditionally, the Met has taken a cautious view of contemporary art: it possesses 27 Rembrandts and no Picassos. Its collection of 15th to 19th Century paintings is the most comprehensive on this side of the Atlantic...
...Increase production. This is the Law and the Prophets-without it the rest of my suggestions are meaningless...
...Pauley, with the blessing of his good friend, doggedly fought on. The five-week-old hearing of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee had turned into meaningless maneuvering and fiery accusations, but it was still Washington's best show. Last week pink-jowled Harold Ickes, whose earlier performances there had cost him his job as Secretary of the Interior, played a return engagement...
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At about 1,800 feet above ground (Japanese figure), it turned into a blue-white ball of energy as bright as a thousand suns. Its initial temperature, if known, has not been told. (The figure, reading in millions or hundreds of millions of degrees, would be meaningless except to physicists...