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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Christian Bérard died last February at 46, Paris lost its most fashionable artist. A scraggle-bearded, sack-bodied man who wore his jackets soiled and kept up his trousers with string, he rated in Paris as a top arbiter of good taste in women's fashions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bebe | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Died. Horace Brown, 72, New England landscape artist who campaigned vigorously for many years and finally helped get a bill passed in Vermont regulating roadside billboards which marred the beauty of the countryside; after a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Bringing Home the Bacon. But the great events of this volume-the fall of France, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain-do not alone present a complete portrait of Churchill himself. To Churchill the diplomat, the high-spirited artist of war, the politician who understood himself and thus understood the British people, must be added Churchill the tireless observer of small things, the accountant who knows that pennies make the pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web & the Weaver | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Novelist Tom Lea's father was mayor of El Paso, Tex., and he grew up among ranchers. Lea, however, became no cattle-raising Texan; he became an artist. As such, on commission for LIFE, he landed on Peleliu in September 1944, with an assault wave of U.S. marines and lived through one of the bloodiest island battles of the Pacific war. Since his return he has been hanging around Mexican bull rings with a new ear for the heartbeats of men in danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scan with Your Life | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...festival of the bulls is the only art form in which violence, bloodshed and death are palpable and unfeigned. It is the only art in which the artist deals actual death and risks actual death, as if a poet were called upon to scan his lines with his life . . . All arts, even the most abstract, are essentially creations to thrill. To allow man to participate in God's designs at one step removed from the anguish of living them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scan with Your Life | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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