Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...what looked like the mightiest of navies (1,330,415 tons; 397 warships of all kinds). Its effective Navy included: 15 battleships, six aircraft carriers, 37 cruisers, 237 destroyers, 102 submarines, 1,300-odd useful combat airplanes. Great Britain at last reports had a little less tonnage (1,253,744) and 336 warships, was far behind the U. S. in submarines (56) and destroyers (192).* The world's third sea power, Japan, has afloat 241 combat vessels (tonnage: 961,326). Japan, Italy, Germany-the combination which the U. S. must now think about when measuring sea power...
...behind last week's revival is 49-year-old Ben Lindheimer, Chicago real-estate operator who grew up within hollering distance of the original Washington Park. When he was seven, little Benny began to hang around the track, was given odd jobs such as checking the horses at the drinking trough on Derby day. Five years ago, Lindheimer's persistent hobby got the better of him. Hearing that Colonel Matt Winn* wanted to sell Washington Park (gradually being overshadowed by Chicago's newer, swankier Arlington Park), Lindheimer bought controlling interest in the track, became its managing director...
...cinemaddict who after seeing it does not know enough to go home is probably capable of being initiated into the Odd Fellows twice on the same night...
Today squat, whimsical Portinari is beginning to be rated as Brazil's, and probably South America's, No. i Painter. Already Detroit's up-&-coming Institute of Arts and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art have arranged one-man shows of 130-odd Portinari canvases (for typical examples, see cuts p. 37). Recently Brazilians have let him paint frescoes for Rio's Department of Education Building and panels for Brazil's pavilion at the New York World's Fair. But Rio de Janeiro's salons still deplore his Negro subjects, prefer...
...Wallace Woodworth, Chairman of Harvard University's Department of Music, for choral instruction; Herbert Graf, Metropolitan Opera Stage Director, to teach opera dramatics; New York Times Music Editor Olin Downes, Composer Roy Harris, and many another to lecture. By last week the month-old centre, with its 300-odd students, had worked its creator up into a well-turned ecstasy. Said Koussevitzky: "How can I speak of something part of myself, so much of my heart, a cherished ideal? It's like my child...