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...estate of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez is natural enough. His country's big man for 27 years, he died aged 78 (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) probably more times a father, grandfather and great-grandfather than any man since Augustus the Strong...
...According to one German count, King Augustus, who died in 1733, begot of 700 mistresses 354 children, many of them highly prolific...
...quality in Christopher Wood's later paintings which during his lifetime of 29 years won the admiration of Augustus John, Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, and which has caused them to be valued by their owners at prices up to $10,000 is a quality found everywhere in English poetry but exceptional in English painting : magic of imagery. Artist Wood sharpened his delicate color sense on Picasso but his line and composition were personal, quaint, candidly visionary. He produced nearly 500 oil paintings in ten years, turned out four a week during his last summer vacation in Brittany. London...
...Confirmed the appointment of Adolph Augustus Berle as Assistant Secretary of State...
...visitors to the Louvre will have the chance of a lifetime to taste the cream of three centuries of English talent. The paintings begin with Hogarth's famed Shrimp Girl and end with the soundly inspired work of Genre-Painter Walter Sickert, Landscapist Philip Wilson Steer, Portraitist Augustus John. Nothing controversial, nothing new mars the orderly display of masterwork. But in Reynolds' and Gainsborough's stately figures, Constable's English clouds and countryside, Turner's light, Blake's line and Rossetti's pattern, most Frenchmen last week found a powerful concentration of evidence...