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...earned teaching would be turned over to a teachers' retirement fund. But the New York City Board of Education refused to act like a grateful teacher. Last week, while Allen continued to churn out his lively eyewitnesser under such headlines as "HEY, TEACH . . ." is SIGNAL FOR BEDLAM and SLOW PUPILS CHEATED BY OUR SCHOOLS, the board coldly told off the "undercover teacher...
...Sculptor Lipchitz, the dust, bedlam and smoke of a foundry are the breath of life-coming after the long, arduous hours of clay modeling in his studio a few miles away on the Hudson. "How I love it," he exclaims. "A foundry is out of time, out of space; it is 7,000 years ago and now." To the foundry workers, Lipchitz is a hard taskmaster. "What interests me now is to find new paths," he says, and hands them yet another casting problem. But it is just this drive that leads Britain's Sir Herbert Read (who ranks...
...statement that "her coming was prophesied on the Nile in the ancient days when Egyptians lived there." Margaret Livingston served a formal tea to her cat every day at 4 ("Ask Paul Whiteman. who later married her"), while Nazimova was the only member of the "nobility of Bedlam" to have "a moon parlor and a lunarium." As for Dagmar herself, she was "The Snake Woman" of Hollywood. "I hissed my way through a hundred interviews, [and my] eyes were supposedly so wicked that men lost their souls if they looked directly into them...
...Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener to a Vuillard world record of $70,000. To the consternation of the mink-coated main-salesroom...
While the team's motorcade crawled across the bedlam of a citywide celebration. Lew turned up the convertible's radio and listened to a newscaster's description of the excitement. A careless woman cut her foot on a broken beer bottle. A man smashed his camera on the sidewalk when a flashbulb failed to fire. Eight nuns standing back from the curbside crowd waved their shy congratulations. Before the night ended, half a million Wisconsinites had cheered the champions, and 35 elbow-benders were in the drunk tank...