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...brutal style can be best traced in the half dozen self-portraits included in this exhibit. The first, painted in 1907 when Schiele was 17 years old and still studying at the Vienna Academy of Arts, is a study-of-a-child-prodigy-type with the flowing hair, billowing bow-tie, and all other appropriate appurtenances. It is objective, the colors are soft but warm and the expression is pleasant...
...eight Crimson oars who brought home the silver will be returning for action next spring. They are bow, Ted Westbrook; 2, Jon French; 4, Bruce Konrad; 5, Boake Christensen; 7, Dave Richards, captain; and stroke, Tony Goodman...
...town where politicians bow like willow trees before racial and religious breezes, New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy is an up-from-the-pavement cop (he likes the word) with a concrete sense of duty. A routine proposal that every Jewish police officer on the force ought to be excused from duty on the Jewish High Holy Days last week seemed to Commissioner Kennedy scarcely worth considering. He had already ordered every one of the 24,000 cops in the city, except those on vacation, to stand emergency duty during all the hubbub of international visitors...
...usual, rumors flew as fast as bow strokes in the William Tell overture: Von Karajan had quit over the mixed public reception to the new Salzburg Festspielhaus, whose massive design was considered by some inimical to the intimacy of Mozart operas (TIME, Aug. 8); or he had been forced out because he scanted Mozart during his tenure in favor of Richard Strauss and various modern composers. A more likely explanation was that he was just restless again...
...factories of Long Island City across the river, the Council listened intently while the Congo's Justin Bomboko urged: "We should leave aside our rancor and our feelings; we should try together to find a solution." Tunisia's Mongi Slim closed the debate. With an apologetic bow to Italy's Egidio Ortona for what he was about to say, Slim brought up a 24-year-old ghost: the fateful day in 1936 when the League of Nations failed its biggest test, the day when Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie vainly appealed for help against Mussolini...