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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scouts. Her program: new emphasis on the home as the smallest unit of democracy; training of Girl Scouts as homemakers rather than campfire-tenders. She re-emphasized the less glamorous, more practical side of Girl Scouting: not knot-tying but helping Mama with the dishes. On this program the rank & file were not consulted...
...Berlin was a photograph of Pilot Carl Francke, "the German aviator who achieved the remarkable act of destroying an English airplane carrier in the North Sea, and who was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Goring with the Iron Cross, first and second class, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
Aaron Bohrod is a shy, blond, hardworking Chicagoan. Whether he will rank as a major U. S. artist 20 years from now is anybody's guess. Undoubtedly his brush points in that direction. At 31, he has won two Guggenheim fellowships and eight art prizes. Thanks to the latest, a $200 honorable mention at the Carnegie International (TIME, Oct. 30), he went by day coach to Manhattan last week, saw a one-man show of his open at the Associated American Artists' Galleries...
Debussy: Preludes, Book 2 (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 12 sides). A top-rank pianist and No. 1 Debussy-boy, massive, snorting, French-born German Pianist Gieseking completes the finest set of Debussy piano performances yet recorded...
...modern writing. When he came to write his autobiography, clinically candid Havelock Ellis tried to outdo himself. Said he, "To do what I have done here has been an act of prolonged precision in cold blood, beyond anything else that I have ever written." He did not hesitate to rank his confessions beside those of Casanova, St. Augustine, Rousseau...