Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Children of Socrates." Bravely over the sandbagged Parthenon last week, as November ended and bitter winter began, flew the blue & white flag of Greece. And bravely through the world, Minister of National Security Constantine Maniadakis, right bower of Premier General John Metaxas, appealed for aid in the struggle to come. Said he: "We address ourselves particularly to the great, strong, liberal union of the United States of America. We pay no attention to the enemy's material strength, and neither do we dare pay attention regarding the intentions of other probable enemies [Germany] . . . the children of Socrates, Plato...
Meanwhile, in the Middle West, white-haired Frederick Stock had been conducting the Chicago Symphony orchestra in the same methodical way for 35 years. Conductor Stock had never tried to create sensations, never toured Europe or South America, never made movies or interested himself in international politics. He had stuck in his own Chicago back yard for so long that music-lovers in big Eastern cities nearly forgot about him, certainly never mentioned his orchestra in the same breath with Toscanini's. But Conductor Stock stuck to his knitting, and the Chicago Symphony stuck to Conductor Stock. Its strings...
...arty Sierra Madre, Los Angeles suburb, artists painted models in the streets. In front of Portland, Ore.'s handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design...
...months ago, shortly after the U. S. Government had carried out its destroyers-for-bases deal with England, William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies decided to hold a competition for a poster to help publicize its work. The Committee was promptly swamped by some 1,000 entries. Last week the Committee put 90 of them on exhibition in Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare...
...arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik-bearded, Kaiser-helmeted Nazi labeled Absolutism horsewhipped a half-clad damsel named Humanity, while the sausagelike corpses of Liberty and Justice lay strewn behind them across the map of Europe. Circumspect White Committee officials, who feared Painter Owen's horror scenes might affect stomachs rather than sympathies, hung them inconspicuously, hoped nobody would pay much attention to them. "No wonder he is bedridden," shuddered one official...