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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Prague the Communists began the biggest purge since they seized power in February 1948. Squads of security police roamed the streets; thousands of persons were sent to uranium mines and forced labor camps. The main targets seemed to be businessmen, but a new stigma was strongly in evidence: "Tito-sympathizer...
...selling narcotics. English papers were more specific: the man was the Rev. Arthur Taillefer, curate of the Roman Catholic Church of Ste.-Madeleine d'Outremont. In the prisoner's dock at the Palais de Justice, Father Taillefer had confessed that he was a key figure in the biggest narcotics ring ever uncovered in Montreal...
...with those exceptions, the standout pictures were not conservative works. Biggest, and in some ways best, painting in the show was a tumultuous Wild Animal Hunt by Bernard Lorjou, who, at 40, is considered a promising "young" painter in France and has never exhibited in the U.S. To some mid-20th Century eyes, Lorjou's Hunt might look like a wild burlesque of one by Delacroix. But in the mid-19th Century, Delacroix' own hunt pictures had seemed like parodies of Rubens'. Lorjou's muscular distortions and crackling, fiery colors were more emotional than artful...
...biggest manhunts in U.S. history was begun this week by the American Diabetes Association: a search for 1,000,000 Americans who may have diabetes and don't know it. Prompt detection, diet and possibly insulin injections can stave off the severer phases of the disease...
...where the Big Four Foreign Ministers met in 1946, where the biggest conventions and the biggest testimonial dinners are held, where the biggest auto and fashion shows and debutante parties are put on, and where princes and potentates make their homes away from home. Once, so the story goes, there were so many members of reigning or deposed royalty at the hotel that a telephone operator, asked if "the king" was still there, casually replied: "Which one? We seem to have several...