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This modest if rhetorical utterance is characteristic of florid, balding, loquacious Stark Young, who has been a discerning critic of art and the theater (in the New Republic and elsewhere) for some 20 years. Stark Young is known also as a best-selling novelist (So Red The Rose), a poet, a playwright, a translator of plays and a lecturer. Last week he made a firm bid to be known as a painter, gave his first exhibition at Manhattan's Friends of Greece...
Like most of the events in Stark Young's life, this one was a shooting of the most fashionable rapids. He opened the proceedings with a lecture to 53 lady friends of Greece and art, including the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Countess di Zoppola, Countess Mercati. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and a clutch of male critics and writers...
...came into a village at dawn and saw four men sitting around a fire as though playing bridge. The Major walked over and said hello. When one of them turned, he saw they were Japs. "From that moment," he said, "I lost all fear of the Japanese. There was stark terror in their faces. I fumbled for the pin of my grenade, tossed it into the fire and ducked. Peter's work was more complicated, but as effective...
Current veiled reports suggest that there will be no Anglo-American offensive in the very near future. Operations are to be limited in both scope and objectives. Meanwhile Admiral Stark in London warns of heavy losses due to submarine activity...
...crucifix, a Spanish flag, and a Spanish poem adorn the walls of a stark, windowless room in Buenos Aires. Translated, the poem reads...