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...aggravated his bitterness. He was twice invalided, was finally sent to a hospital for the shell-shocked and insane. When he got out he joined the ranks of the Dadaists, once marched in a parade wearing a death's-head and carrying a poster saying "Dada, Dada, über alles." The Dadaists were only a minor influence on his art. He admired the way the Italian futurists portrayed tension and movement. He borrowed a little from the cubists and from Paul Klee, who was so intrigued by the art of children and lunatics...
Born. To Marguerite Piazza, 34. onetime Metropolitan Opera nightingale turned supper-club thrush, and William James Condon, 49, a Tennessee snuff-company executive: their third child (ber fifth), second daughter; in Memphis...
...Adlai Stevenson; but more balanced journalism would surely have pointed out that the remarks ascribed to Governor Stevenson by Robert Boulay I June 61 correspond to nothing anyone else has ever heard Stevenson say publicly or privately. Governor Stevenson is fully and explicitly on record on the question of Ber lin. It might conceivably strain the credulity even of TIME to suppose that he would sud-denlv choose to confide to an itinerant French newspaperman views on Berlin which are incompatible with everything else he has said on the subject...
Riches in Failure. Ber enson earned every one of his pleasures and treasures, has bequeathed his villa with its library and collection to Harvard as a center for Italian art studies. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to Boston, he got his education (Boston University and Harvard) on scholarships, was sponsored by Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner, whose collection he largely formed. Before the turn of the century he had made his fame as an art expert when he audaciously announced that about 75% of the Renaissance paintings in a major exhibition in London were either copies or attributed...
Wherever the analysts went, they left a wake of rising stocks. Almost all the companies visited rose as U.S. and European investors anticipated the analysts' reports. Britain's Edwards High Vacuum climbed 58% with the visit, and Germany's Siemens & Halske went up 5 points just ber fore the visitors went rubbernecking through a Siemens plant...