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...chosen it to be a model for the rebuilding of France's shattered villages. Famed Architect Le Corbusier had planned its new form : a brick church and schoolhouse, a mairie fashioned from local clay, a paved square with a pond, homes and farms set in a concentric pattern that did away with the clumsy, age-old system of scattered land holdings. Now a bustling team of 70 blue-uniformed boys, recruited by the Ministry of Labor from bombed-out Picardy families, were clearing debris and replotting the village...
What makes "Over Twenty-One" interesting, and it is interesting, is that the newspaper editor is modelled closely after Raiph Ingorsoll, editor of PM who is now, to complete the pattern, in the Army. His boss is a take-off on Marshall Field, and it is a matter of record that Field was put out about Ingersoll's getting into the Army instead of carrying on with...
...Last. There was no overall pattern to German resistance. Along the Netherlands front, in the crisscross of canals, Canadians had to battle for every yard as they drove to link up with another drop of airborne troops. There Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, with his 50,000 troops, faced certain isolation. The Germans blew dikes, set up new lines behind 400 square miles of flooded lowlands. Blaskowitz meant to fight to the last...
...Examples: nine amendments to Dumbarton Oaks, recommended by the Protestants (TIME, Jan. 29), which would fit world security plans to Christian ideals; the "Pattern for Peace" signed by 146 top-ranking Protestants, Catholics and Jews, calling for a moral world order backed by "adequate sanctions" to keep the peace...
...finally became so ascetic that curves were too emotional for him, and he drew nothing but horizontal and vertical lines, convinced that the right angle was the purest "expression of the two opposing forces [which] constitute life." To the uninitiated, the result might look something like a linoleum pattern, but Mondrian spent days shifting colored Scotch tape around a canvas, hoping to achieve a perfect harmony of balanced rectangles...