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...still without electric lights, telephones, running water. The railyards were a graveyard of charred trains and dynamited workers' dormitories. On one street they named "Liberation," the retreating Communists set fire to the post office. Across the way, they reduced the telephone exchange (servicing 4,000 lines) to a pile of splintered glass and twisted wire. In the city's outskirts, they did a first-class wrecker job on a power plant. Besides crippling communications, the Reds wrecked 52 Kalgan factories (including flour, match, soap, and soy-bean sauce), depriving families of 3,000 workers of their livelihood...
...much money for an honest Dutchman to have made during the German occupation. But when Artist Hans van Meegeren was accused of collaborating and was asked to explain his quick fortune of $3,024,000, he had an answer ready. Said Van Meegeren: he had made his pile not by collaborating but by forging seven Vermeers and two Pieter de Hooches; one phony Vermeer he had patriotically palmed off on Göring (TIME, Sept. 10, 1945). To prove it, he painted still another "Vermeer," Jesus in the Temple (see cut), in his cell. It looked unlike Vermeer...
...prove it and for three years painted starved, laundresses, absinthe drinkers and grave, bearded beachcombers in blue. Nowadays they seem a bit stagy and sentimental; Barr suggests that they reflect Picasso's "room without a lamp, his meals of rotten sausages, even his burning a pile of his own drawings to keep warm...
Onward & Upward. Ben McKelway, brother of blond, bland St. Clair McKelway of the New Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
...Atomic Age was going on four years old. Last week Major General Leslie R. Groves, military matrix of The Bomb, announced that the Atomic Age began officially on Dec. 2, 1942, when the first uranium pile started working under the west stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. The Army's Manhattan Project, said the General, would observe Dec. 2 as "a milestone in the advancement of science." He did not guess how the rest of mankind would feel about...