Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pool thinks his company has grown so fast partly because it is in an industry of giants. Says he: "Small companies have the advantage of being fast moving-by the time the big companies make up their minds that they want to do battle, the little company has already...
...impress the U.S. with Soviet "science, technology and culture." the Russians opened a trade fair in Manhattan's Coliseum this week-the first big exhibit of Soviet wares in the U.S. since the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Soviet Union spent more than $10 million on the New York show, which touches on nearly every aspect of Russian life from art and ballet to city planning, and sent their First Deputy Premier Frol Koslov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to preside at the opening. The 10,000 exhibits are good, bad and indifferent by U.S. standards; the overall...
Prize Catch. Like maharajahs eager for a tiger hunt, the big dealers and collectors came flocking to the humid, glass-roofed main salesroom of London's famed Sotheby's (pronounced Sutherbees) auction house. Prize catch of the lot was clearly Peter Paul Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. A 10 ft. 9¼ in. by 8 ft. panel painted by Rubens at the peak of his powers in 1634 for Louvain's Convent of the Dames Blanches, it is considered by dealers not only the best Rubens in Britain but the most important old master...
Rubens but a house big enough to hang it in. The British press, who had been worrying out loud that such a "national" treasure would be snatched away by a rich American, let out a patriotic cheer...
...whole. Author de Lima's narrative offers more tricks than treats. She raises the question of artist v. society, love v. vocation, honor v. survival, but her hero is not big enough to embody these dilemmas. His conscience is not so much troubled as missing. Still, her book is a feast of the visual imagination. Herself the wife of a painter, she stipples Praise with vivid vignettes. And when it comes to dialogue, her ear is as good as her eye. Author de Lima raises a storm, all right, even if it is only a tempest in an espresso...