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Athlone after break of war opened a "worldwide moral rearmament weekend" of the Oxford Group with solemn words: "Our thoughts go out tonight to all who are facing special sacrifice or suffering...
...last week, when solemn, plodding Hans Lange gave Chicagoans a chance to hear it with the Chicago Symphony, Harris' Third Symphony had become the most talked-about U. S. composition in a decade. Said Koussevitzky: "This is the first truly great symphonic work to be written in America." Chicago critics, admiring its lean economy, lack of bombast and its forthright poetic atmosphere, wrote that "something of the crudeness and strength of pioneer America has crept into this new symphony,'' found it "as completely outside European experience as the prairie morning itself." To more cautious listeners...
...first half-year drew to a close, and a solemn, long-nosed reporter for President Franklin Roosevelt went the rounds of Europe to learn if total war was truly inevitable, spokesmen for both sides restated their war aims more grimly and finally than ever. For the Allies, British Prime Minister Chamberlain said again: Hitler and his crushing "ism" must be wiped out of Europe. For himself and his oligarchy, Adolf Hitler said: he must dominate 125,000,000 Europeans and the world's trade arteries must be freed from Great Britain's "pirate" grip...
...American Hansson." Actually the two are not much alike. Franklin Roosevelt is a liberal aristocrat, estate-owner, stamp-collector, smile-flasher, compleat angler, statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin D., or as that Roosevelt; Swedes either speak of good Per Albin or use certain short Nordic adjectives...
...South's few good painters. The Boyer Galleries showed the kaleidoscopic water colors of Nathaniel Dirk, a camoufleur in World War I. In the Bonestell Gallery, Frenchman Jean Charlot, a founding father of the famed Mexican school, exhibited deceptively simple pictures of broad, squat peons and solemn babies. The Downtown Gallery had as fine a first one-man show as a crowded season has seen-Julian Levis serene, spacious paintings of the seaside...