Word: arps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newly elected captain Herbert Levine turned in an outstanding performance in his saber match, with Halton Arp leading in the foils department with a 5-1 decision. Dick Lewontin turned in two winning decisions at foils, and Giles Censtable pulled out the only victory in the epee department...
...foils summary: First team--Arp, Lewontin, Frankman--won, 7-2; second team--Bruner, Shade, Robinson...
Freshman foils: First team--Arp, Frankman, Lewontin. Second team--Bruner. Robinson, Shade...
Peggy Guggenheim, copper-rich patroness of the arts and collector of artists, was out two dreamlike paintings, an abstract sculpture and a utilitarian gewgaw. Incredibly stolen from her art gallery: Flat Landscape and Child of the Mountain by Paul Klee, an untitled chromium relief by Hans Arp, and a fancy bottle top wrought by Author Laurence Vail, her first husband...
...instant I felt it I wanted to own it." With her new-found knowledge Peggy opened a gallery in London, cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." Among her first exhibitors were Arp ("He served me break fast every morning"), Kandinsky ("So jolly and charming, with a horrid wife"), and Yves Tanguy ("He had . . . beautiful little feet of which he was very proud"). Tanguy, who painted deserts strewn with elaborate bones, made her happy sometimes. "There was one drawing that looked so much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place...