Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Satie, Poet Jean ("Birdcatcher") Cocteau and Ballet Impresario Sergei Diaghilev-spirited Picasso out of the dumps and off to Italy to paint decor for a ballet, Parade. It has never been publicly known that Picasso not only did the cubist decor for this extravaganza but rewrote Cocteau's book. In Rome he fell in love with a minor member of the Diaghilev ballet, Olga Koklova, and found himself faced with the unusual demand for a Russian-Orthodox Church marriage. In 1918 the marriage took place in Paris, and the Picassos moved into the two top floors of a heavy...
...other explanation is that sales of Picassos have long been skilfully manipulated and that Picasso, who knows how good he is, has grown rich by not objecting. The merest page from a sketch book of the Toulouse-Lautrec period fetches $200, and there have been at least two sales of paintings in the U. S. for a reputed price of about $25,000 each...
Picasso's enemies attribute to him a peasant tightness with his money. There are few stories of his personal generosity, though it is a fact that any poor but promising poet can get a Picasso etching for his book by asking for it. He has certainly contributed a great deal to the Loyalist side in the Spanish civil war: the Guernica mural free, all proceeds from exhibiting it (to date about $5,000), at least two fully equipped fighting planes, and during the last few weeks a cash gift of 300,000 francs...
...Book of Rites" written by Ma Yong in the 2nd Century...
This speculation is contained in a slender, thoughtfully written book full of charts and tables, published this week and called The Natural History of Population* Author Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist of Johns Hopkins University, has been much in the news lately because Harold LeClair Ickes, an eminent Washington politician, lighted on one of Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported...