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...easy to find meaning amid the drips and daubs, splashes and swirls of contemporary abstract painting. But John I. H. Baur, curator of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, believes he has found more in U.S. modern art than even the artists admit. He has documented his thesis with the works of 58 abstract sculptors and painters in a touring show, "Nature in Abstraction," now on view at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D. C. The thesis: U.S. abstract painters, consciously or unconsciously, are bringing nature back into the picture as a prime source of inspiration and imagery...
...Curator Baur rounded up works ranging from Old Timer John Marin's Movement-Sea or Mountain, As You Will to Willem de Kooning's splashy February, found examples from the East Coast to the West (see color page). Arranged in such all-encompassing categories as "The Land and the Waters," "Light, Sky and Air" and "Cycles of Life and Season," they make a handsome array of abstract art that seems to add a modicum of rhyme and season to what had hitherto seemed merely decorative or chaotic...
...German war prisoners whose release was promised at the Russo-German Moscow conference reached a drab reception center in Friedland. Among them were two who claimed to have seen the Hitler finale with their own eyes. One was his old pilot, SS Major General Hans Baur, who was captured in Berlin. Baur said positively that Hitler and Eva Braun were dead. "Hitler said goodbye to me and then shot himself," Baur told newsmen. Baur did not see the Führer's body...
...Angeles court, Cinemactor John (The Quiet Man) Wayne cried the financial blues as his estranged wife, onetime Mexican Cinemactress Esperanza Baur, demanded $9,000 a month (he is offering $900) while her separate maintenance suit is being decided. Besides all the expenses of stardom, said Wayne, he had to cope with taxes and an extravagant wife. "I know it sounds ridiculous." sighed the cinema heman, whose 1952 income was estimated at $500,000 by his wife, but he and Mrs. Wayne "just couldn't make ends meet...
Last December, Blue Hill had predicted a cold winter, on the basis of a North Atlantic pressure formula developed by Dr. Franz Baur, whom Brooks calls "Germany's leading student" in the field of long-range weather forecasting...