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Finally, after the war, he settled down in the Cezanne country near Aix. There, said Tal-Coat, he found himself at last, and "found the world in the shade of the ever-changing mountain mists of la Sainte Victoire." Taking to the woods, he studied "the tangled roots of the pine trees . . . the silence of the rock." Later in his studio he tried to catch the forest's "union of space and movement" on canvases which he covered with patchy, off-white backgrounds, spots of green, grey, mauve and brown...
...York, T. V. Soong, 55, onetime Premier of China, now listed by the Communists as a "war criminal," arrived with Mme. Soong by plane from France, where he had been taking a rest cure at Aix-les-Bains. No politics connected with his trip, he said. It was just a three-month visit as "a private citizen," chiefly "to see my children [Laurette, 21, Mary Jane, 19, Katherine, 18, all going to school in the U.S.] and old friends," and, "of course,"his sister, Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...shuttered house overlooking Aix in French Provence, Masson tried to explain last week what the switch meant. "Don't think I'm going to return to the Barbizon school and paint descriptive landscapes," he began. "No, I'm still a surrealist, but a sun-loving one-seeking the fantastic and mysterious in broad daylight, under...
...quiet Aix-en-Provence, France, Winston Churchill settled down for a few weeks in a hotel suite to finish Vol. II of his memoirs, between painting junkets...
...April 1889 ... a famous poet .,. recited How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix into a toy designed to preserve the spoken word upon a wax-covered cylinder. All went well until the poet came to the words, "Speed! echoed the . . ." Then he hesitated, and said: "I forget it." Upon being prompted, however, he went on: "Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest." Again the poet paused, and presently said: "I am exceedingly sorry that I cannot remember my own verses, but one thing I shall remember all my life is the astonishing sensation produced upon...