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...Person. The Admiral is an adversary who does not want underrating. Yamamoto means Base of a Mountain, and the Admiral is solid. He is deliberate, positive, aggressive. His passion for winning has made him the bridge, poker, chess, and go* champion of the Japanese Navy. Once an American asked him how he learned bridge so quickly. He explained: "If I can keep 5,000 ideographs in my mind, it is not hard to keep in mind 52 cards...
...liable to do anything," affably croaked Manhattan's No. 1 collector of French art, leather-faced ex-Utilities Tycoon Chester Dale. What Collector Dale was liable to do was a question that worried many a U.S. museum. From 1926 (when his wife switched his ruling passion from fire engines to art) to 1936 Collector Dale bought French paintings as shrewdly as he formerly consolidated power companies. His collection, now valued at $6,000,000 to $15,000,000, outgrew three Manhattan apartments, now fills five floors of a museumlike private mansion on East 79th Street, and is rated...
...these encouraging facts, Dr. Gillespie had a ready explanation. The British are very busy with integrated, social activity, have little time to worry about personal troubles. The number of neuroses among women who were formerly idle has decreased sharply: the passion to win the war provides them with a new set of "pivotal values." The new communal life in shelters and safety stations keeps people from feeling alone and afraid...
Moncado startled Filipinos by advocating "dominion status for the Philippines under the United States." Quezon and Osmeña stuck to their Nationalist platform, which calls for outright independence for the Philippines in 1946. But Manuel Quezon, whose passion for secession has been minified lately under the shadow of Japanese aggression, admitted to his people that independence now is in the hands of no one man or country, but in the lap of the gods...
Kokoschka, a high priest of Europe's Expressionist school, paints and draws with desperate passion eerie, flayed-looking nudes, wild-eyed portrait sitters, muddily fantastic landscapes, grotesque figures of saints and demons done in coarse, guttural lines and screaming colors. To connoisseurs, his brooding fantasies are as exciting as the paintings of the Expressionists' idol, Vincent van Gogh...