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...exhibit bore the ambitious title of "Photography in the Fine Arts," and was the brainchild of Ivan Dmitri, a onetime etcher who switched to commercial photography when etching lost to the camera in the 1930s. Dmitri decided that most museums would not bother with the serious photographer, and galleries were not interested in showing or selling his wares. What photographers needed, Dmitri argued, was someone to screen out the best from the millions of pictures taken each year...
...Been Robbed!" Like his father, Francis Roux did not believe in insurance, though sometimes as a precaution he would take some of his most treasured paintings up to bed with him at night. But one night a few weeks ago, he did not even bother to do that. Sure enough, when he came down next morning, the walls of his dining room were bare. "We've been robbed!" he screamed, as his wife and mother burst into tears. Gone were three Braques, three Légers, a Picasso, Modigliani, Buffet, Dufy, Miró, Matisse, Bonnard, Utrillo, Valadon, Laurencin, Derain...
...British felt threatened by the Common Market, they had themselves largely to blame. Though Britain was invited to take part in the 1955 Messina conference that drew up plans for the Common Market, the British government did not even bother to send a minister-apparently in the happy conviction that the Common Market would never get started. When it became clear that the Common Market could work, charged the Common Marketeers, Britain deliberately set out to destroy or dilute...
...keep mum about what they see and hear, but next day the word was all over Washington. Ike had offhandedly endorsed Richard Nixon for President. Noting that next year a new President would be occupying his place, the story went, Ike said it would save a lot of bother just to move the distance of two chairs. Sitting two chairs away, his face a well-controlled mask: Vice President Nixon...
...store (the maximum allowed by the company), she used a typical housewife's solution: she made it into poultry stuffing, is now one of the biggest stuffing makers. Mrs. Rudkin has also branched out into cookies, brown-and-serve rolls (which she at first opposed as too much bother), and a new line of frozen pastries...