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Tanner never did win great acclaim at home during his lifetime. But now Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts is about to correct the oversight with a retrospective of 80 paintings, drawings and studies that range from a pastoral done in his student days to a Return from the Crucifixion completed before his death...
...Santa Monica, Calif. Born Spangler Arlington Brugh, Taylor broke into movies in 1934 and within three years had appeared in 15 features; his fans flocked to see him in such films as Waterloo Bridge, Bataan and Quo Vadis. In later years, Taylor won critical as well as popular acclaim for such workmanlike stints as the mental patient in 1947's High Wall. As Longtime Friend Ronald Reagan said in his eulogy: "He was more than a pretty boy, an image that embarrassed him because he was a man who respected his profession and was a master...
Earthy Language. "This is a proud moment for the country," President Nixon told the astronauts in a three-minute phone call from his White House office to the Princeton, and other congratulations came in from all the world. But the acclaim was not universal. In a telegram to the President and to NASA, Larry Poland, 29, president of Miami Bible College Inc., complained that the Apollo 10 astronauts had carried "the language of the street" to the moon and called on the crew to repent their "profanity, vulgarity and blasphemy." Each astronaut, said the minister, should be required to issue...
Died. Julius Katchen, 42, U.S. concert pianist and recording artist, considered one of the world's foremost performers of Brahms; of cancer; in Paris. A New Jersey-born child prodigy who made his debut at eleven, Katchen won acclaim for his brilliant performances of Brahms' complete solo works, also recorded some of Beethoven's major concertos and was at home throughout the range of classical repertory. Though he was well enough known at home, his greatest popularity was in Europe, where he spent most of his adult life, exemplifying in his playing the ambience of an older...
Died. Rolfe Humphries, 74, translator and poet whose renderings of the classics (notably Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's The Art of Love) won acclaim; of diverticulitis; in Redwood City, Calif. Humphries' translations combined the best qualities of scholar and poet: a rare sense of artistry, humor and language; his own poetry was less well received by critics, though readers enjoyed such quiet poems as "No Enemy...