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Pittsburgh's Carnegie International is one of the three great biennial shows (with Venice's and Sao Paulo's) that survey and measure contemporary art from all over the world. For the 39th Carnegie, which opened last week, the museum's new director, Gordon Washburn, chose 305 paintings from 24 nations. They make a generally lively show, but one that belies...
...Contributions can be sent to CARE, 20 Broad St., New York 5, N.Y., or to American Relief for Korea, 133 East 39th St., New York 16, or to Save the Children Federation Inc., 80 Eighth Ave., New York II. The two last-named agencies also accept children's clothing...
When Sergeant Hubert Lee had finished his story last week, the Army announced that he would be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor "above and beyond the call of duty." He was the 39th fighting man to win the nation's highest decoration in Korea. Said the shy sergeant: "I'll be glad when this day is over...
Barbara Mutton left Paris for Cologne, Germany to spend her 39th birthday visiting her old friend, aging (42) German tennis ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm. Could this be a romance? asked friends. Babs left them dangling. Rumors of an engagement with Von Cramm are "perfectly ridiculous," she said. "I have been married four times, and I don't feel young enough to become engaged again." But, she added with womanly logic, "this does not mean that I will not marry again...
Sixty Years in Indiana. After the first census in 1790, the center was the upper Chesapeake Bay. It has moved west ever since, never straying more than 30 miles north or south of the 39th parallel. Between 1850 and 1860 it hopped 80.6 miles from western Virginia to Ohio and by 1890 it had jumped clear into Indiana, where it stayed for six decades. This year, when the mathematicians finished calculations on the 1950 census, it was obvious that the center had made the biggest westward hop since 1890, and, because of the industrial rush to Texas, the greatest southerly...